dob

Meanings

Verb

• To report (a person) 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
• In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.

Noun

• A small amount of something, especially paste.
• Initialism of date of birth

Origin

• Uncertain.
• Initialism.
• Short for do our best. dyb (or dib) and dob were used as abbreviated forms of do your best and do our best in certain Scout chants.