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Meanings of gobs in English

Portuguese
montão
Catalan
feix
Spanish
multitud

A large number or amount.

montão
Usage of gobs in English
1
We all send you and the Harmonies lots and gobs of love.
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 5 (1901-1906)
2
She ate gobs of greasy chips and bloated her belly with Cokes.
Public secrets
3
She wore jeans, a white peasant blouse, and gobs of silver jewelry.
Watch them die
4
She immediately began to 'give' comfort, in large, clearly articulated, perfectly grammatical gobs.
Mildred Pierce
5
In reality, gobs of people buy S-Classes without thinking about it.
Wired
6
Even with gobs of information, any automated process is bound to make mistakes.
Wired
7
He has the stuff in gobs, but he hates giving up.
Right Ho, Jeeves
8
Biscuits are best formed by gently patting gobs of dough between your hands.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
9
Three or four kinds of jam; big gobs of country butter.
In the Land of Jim Crow
10
On the one hand, there was SkyDrive, with gobs of storage.
Wired
11
Thank goodness the Belle wrote a zillion poems, giving Nat gobs of material.
The arms maker of berlin
12
I'd be an all-day sucker, be gobs; yis, and an all-night sucker, too.
At the Foot of the Rainbow
13
Harry beamed at me with clear, blue eyes surrounded by gobs of mascara.
Death du Jour
14
Very well: if he has gobs, let us retort with goblets.
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
15
And I'm about to lay my mitts on gobs of money.
In the Dark
16
Electric motors also provide gobs or torque, a big plus in motocross riding.
Wired
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Translations for gobs
Portuguese
montão
Gobs through the time
Gobs across language varieties
United States of America
Common