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dobber (plural dobbers)
1. Alternative form of dauber (“marker pen used for bingo cards”)
2. (UK, derogatory) A member of the working class in Scotland or Ireland who is seen as undereducated, with poor taste, especially in clothes, and poor social skills; closely connected to chav.
3. (Australia, UK, derogatory) One who dobs (informs against or implicates to authority).
Nikki is such a dobber, she told the teacher that I hit Karen in the playground.
4. (British, informal) Any small electronic device that plugs directly into a larger one, such as a wireless scoring system in fencing or a USB mass storage device.
5. (British, Ireland, chiefly dialect) A large marble.
6. (US, regional) A float (as used by an angler).
7. A dabchick.
(, Wed 3 Jul 2024, 12:40, archived)
Time on your hands today?

(, Wed 3 Jul 2024, 12:41, archived)
I was actually looking for definitions that included the gardening tool,
but apparently that's a dibber.
(, Wed 3 Jul 2024, 12:43, archived)
It is indeed
Which reminds me, I still haven't found my secateurs
(, Wed 3 Jul 2024, 12:45, archived)
try looking in the last place

(, Thu 4 Jul 2024, 7:51, archived)
isn't 4 a 'dongle'?

(, Wed 3 Jul 2024, 13:16, archived)
like you've never rammed your dobber into a USB port

(, Wed 3 Jul 2024, 13:22, archived)