dob

1. (slang, chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To report (a person) to someone in authority for a wrongdoing.Examples: "I’ll dob on you if you break in."; "You dobbed me in! — I never did!"; "Students often claimed that an act of informing was just ‘dobbing as a joke’ and therefore ‘not really dobbing’."AustraliaNew-Zealandslang

2. (slang, chiefly Australia) To do one's share; to contribute.Examples: "We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired."; "He′d never take payment in cash for tracking, but when they dobbed in for presentations such as the fridge he accepted them shyly, abashedly,[…]."; "The miners had all dobbed in to buy a few bottles of beer which they left in the creek overnight to cool."Australiaslang

3. (slang, chiefly Australia) To nominate a person, often in their absence, for an unpleasant task.Examples: "I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes."; "1977, University of British Columbia, Canadian Literature, Issues 74-77, page 108, Writing reviews reminds me of the time I got dobbed in to be the judge at the Poochera sheep dog trials. It′s easy they said, sinking beers in the shade of the lean-to, just watch the dog."; "Those who moved into organisational roles sometimes did it unwittingly, even unwillingly, as they were ‘dobbed’ in for tasks, succeeded and so it went on."Australiaslang

4. (slang, Northern Ireland) To play truantExamples: "Parents were taken to court 189 times in the Western region over the past five years because their children were ‘dobbing’ school.¶ The Education Minister John O’Dowd revealed the number of parents taken to court due to children being absent from school […]"Northern-Irelandslang

1. (intransitive, sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.Examples: "I used to get through the dibbing and dobbing all right but during the howling I usually rolled over backwards."; "Why were there 212 fatalities at the first boy scout camp? There wasn't much dybbing and dobbing at Robert Baden-Powell's first scout camp as the camp in question was in Mafeking and took place during a particularly nasty siege[…]"humorousintransitivesometimes

1. (engineering) Initialism of degree of bending.Examples: "Through-the-thickness stress distribution characterized by the degree of bending (DoB) has a major effect on the fatigue behavior of tubular joints commonly found in steel offshore structures. The determination of DoB values is essential for improving the accuracy of fatigue life estimation using the stress-life (S–N) method […]"abbreviationalt-ofinitialism