English Dictionary

FOB

名詞

略語 別表記 可算名詞 イニシャリズム 不可算名詞 アメリカ英語 インド 軽蔑的 時々

(military) Initialism of forward operating base. / Initialism of flash of brilliance. / Initialism of freedom of belief. / (US, politics) Initialism of friend of Bill: a supporter of Bill Clinton.

日本語の意味

前方作戦基地（軍事用語としての略語） / 一瞬のひらめき（才能の閃きとしての略語） / 信仰の自由（思想・信念の自由としての略語） / ビル・クリントン支持者（米国政治で、Bill Clintonの支持者を示す略語）

The patrol radioed that the convoy had reached the FOB and was securing the perimeter.

哨戒隊は、車列が前方作戦基地に到着して周辺の警備を行っていると無線で報告した。

意味（1）

(military) Initialism of forward operating base.

意味（2）

Initialism of flash of brilliance.

意味（3）

Initialism of freedom of belief.

意味（4）

(US, politics) Initialism of friend of Bill: a supporter of Bill Clinton.

It seemed at times that everyone was an FOB — everyone, that is, who'd emerged from the ivyest groves of academia […]

意味（5）

(India) Initialism of foot overbridge: a pedestrian overpass.

There has been an inordinate delay in starting work on the foot over bridge (FOB) with escalators in front of D.G. Vaishnav College on Poonamallee High Road in Arumbakkam. […] The FOB at P.H. Road, which is maintained by the state highways department, is one of seven similar facilities planned at various places in the city at a cost of Rs. 28 crore and being executed by the department.

意味（6）

(sometimes derogatory) A recent immigrant ("fresh off the boat").

Everyone was Chinese. Some of the students were ABCs. That means American-born Chinese. Others were FOBs. FOB means fresh off the boat and it is a bad insult. I didn't feel prejudiced about the FOBs because I was one of them.

意味（7）

(pathology) Abbreviation of fecal occult blood.

FOBs （ plural ）