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slob about

C1 informal intransitive
In simple words

To sit around doing nothing and not caring about how you look or behave

Meanings

1 C1 idiomatic informal

To spend time being lazy, doing very little, often in a messy or unkempt way

"He spent the entire bank holiday slobbing about in his pyjamas."

Usage notes

Chiefly British English. Has a mild self-deprecating or critical tone. 'Slob' as a noun means an untidy, lazy person, and the verb carries the same connotation.

Commonly used with

all day weekend sofa house watching TV

Forms

Base
slob about
I/you/we/they
3rd person
slobs about
he/she/it
Past simple
slobed about
yesterday
Past participle
slobed about
have + pp
-ing form
slobing about
continuous

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Synonyms

laze about lounge around do nothing veg out bum around idle about

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