English-Finnish translations for dob

Definition of dob

  • To report to someone in authority for a wrongdoing
  • To do one's share; to contribute
  • To nominate a person, often in their absence, for an unpleasant task
  • To play truant
  • A small amount of something, especially paste
  • In the scouting movement, to chant ''dob'to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws

Examples

  • I’ll dob on you if you break in.
  • You dobbed me in! — I never did!
  • We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired.
  • I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes.
  • Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.

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