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blob

/blɒb/

noun

Meaning

  • A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.

  • In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.

  • A bubble; a bleb.

  • A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.

  • The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.

  • A score of zero.

verb

Meaning

  • To drop in the form of a blob or blobs

  • To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs.

  • To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.

  • To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.