English Dictionary

dob

IPA（発音記号）

/dɑb/

動詞

オーストラリア英語 ニュージーランド英語 イギリス英語 俗語 北アイルランド英語

(slang, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, and UK) To report (a person) to someone in authority for a wrongdoing. / (slang, chiefly Australia) To do one's share; to contribute.

日本語の意味

不正や悪事を働いた人を権限のある者に告げ口する、密告する / 自分の分担分を果たす、自分の役割・責任を遂行する

If you keep taking office supplies without asking, I'll dob you to HR.

もし無断で事務用品を取り続けるなら、人事部に報告しますよ。

意味（1）

(slang, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, and UK) To report (a person) to someone in authority for a wrongdoing.

I’ll dob on you if you break in.

意味（2）

(slang, chiefly Australia) To do one's share; to contribute.

We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired.

意味（3）

(slang, chiefly Australia) To nominate a person, often in their absence, for an unpleasant task.

I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes.

意味（4）

(slang, Northern Ireland) To play truant

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 […]

dobs （ present singular third-person ）

dobbing （ participle present ）

dobbed （ participle past ）

dobbed （ past ）