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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
slob
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If you keep dressing like a slob, no one's ever going to ask you for a date.
▪ Jo's such a slob - how can you live like that?
▪ Why are you going out with that fat slob?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the big slob didn't even realize how objectionable he was.
▪ His no-good slob of a kid was talking of having forty thousand dollars.
▪ I choose to believe he was merely a slob rather than inefficient enough to walk around with bloodstains from his last victim.
▪ Larry Flynt presents the infamous pornographer as a likable slob who faced down the big guys and won.
▪ Ludwig Holzer claims that slobs work harder because they feel they must prove something.
▪ Then Scott started on the children, calling the oldest girl a slob.
▪ You can look like a slob for free, I figure.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slob

1780, "mud, muddy land," from Irish slab "mud, mire dirt," itself probably borrowed from English slab "muddy place" (c.1600), from a Scandinavian source (compare Icelandic slabb "sludge"). The meaning "untidy person" is first recorded 1887, from earlier expressions such as slob of a man (1861).

Wiktionary
slob

n. 1 (context informal disapproving English) A lazy and slovenly person. 2 (context derogatory English) A lazy, obese person.

WordNet
slob

n. a coarse obnoxious person [syn: sloven, pig, slovenly person]

Wikipedia
SLOB

The SLOB (Simple List Of Blocks) allocator is one of three available memory allocators in the Linux kernel. (The other two are SLAB and SLUB.) The SLOB allocator is designed to require little memory for the implementation and housekeeping, for use in small systems such as embedded systems. Unfortunately, a major limitation of the SLOB allocator is that it suffers greatly from internal fragmentation.

SLOB currently uses a first-fit algorithm, which uses the first available space for memory. In 2008, a reply from Linus Torvalds on a Linux mailing list was made where he suggested the use of a best-fit algorithm, which tries to find a memory block which suits needs best. Best fit finds the smallest space which fits the required amount available, avoiding loss of performance, both by fragmentation and consolidation of memory.

By default, Linux kernel used a SLAB Allocation system until version 2.6.23, when SLUB allocation became the default. When the CONFIG_SLAB flag is disabled, the kernel falls back to using the "SLOB" allocator. The SLOB allocator was used in DSLinux on Nintendo DS handheld console.

Usage examples of "slob".

A bit farther down the bar rail, a massive, hulking slob named Bungo had eyed Wulfgar from the minute the young barbarian had walked through the door.

Speed 300, destination Costa Rica, cargo slobs like you and me for the Chlorella plantations.

Something like this was no use on the plains of India or in the mountains of Kenya, but it could make New Edenites indolent pleasure-seeking slobs as easy as pie.

As for Winthrop, he is widely and affectionately known as the Slob of Fah Rockaway, and an old, beat-up bathrobe is his preferred article of wear on formal occasions.

Perfect Jane the Neatnik or Pristine Christine who is secretly a slob?

Well, darn it, could I take that from a slob of a mixed-ale scrapper when it was handed out at the finest kid that ever came from New York?

Dor regarded Zilch as a great blubbery slob of an animal, but anything that distracted Irene was to some extent worthwhile.

I was as bursting with health and vigour as any other poor slob living in the damp, cold, misty, bronchitic climate of the British Isles.

Both were looking very much the tourist, clean-shaven, clean hair, not overdressed as businessmen, not underdressed as slobs.

The whole shebang: Libertarians, Nihilists, Wobblies, the Anti-Racist Leagueeverybody but those Eurocommunist slobs.

I could never date someone who made a living defending the likes of Peter Hargrave against the working-class slobs who are just trying to be treated fairly.

Sitting at e with a tape recorder and a script, or turning tricks with e fat slob in a car behind the gas-works up the streetT She tured out of the window to the wasteland that covered several s to the north of the station.

But timed just right was the Cuban deal and those slobs on the hill got taken in by the Reds who saw a way of injecting a poison into this country while they built up their own machine.

Then, more normally, he went on, was merely expressing my detestation of tuxedos, particularly when infested by fat slobs like yon bloke, to use your own curious turn of expression.

Even the drunken slobs think they can get away with copping a feel whenever they want it.