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Blob

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1. A corpse, road-accident victim. An unsympathetic term used by ambulance men, the police and tramps.

2. An ulcer, excrescence

3. A bodily protuberance, a breast or a testicle

4. A condom.

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The second and third senses of the word are recent mock-childish coinages in use particularly among schoolchildren and students.

In archaic British slang, blob has been used in a variety of sexually related con- texts, e.g. 'on blob', meaning sexually aroused, and 'blobbing', meaning suffering from a venereal infection.

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