blob

Meanings

1. 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.
2. A large cloud of gas.
3. Ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob, a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.
4. A bubble; a bleb.
5. A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
6. The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.
7. A score of zero.
8. Physarum polycephalum, a bright yellow acellular slime mold known for solving puzzles, making decisions, etc. without a nervous system.
9. An extremely morbidly obese person, to the point of most of their body being composed of fat and nothing else.

1. To splash in the form of a blob or blobs.
2. To drop a blob or blobs onto; to cover with blobs.
3. To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
4. To spill sauce on oneself while eating.
5. To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
6. To catch eels by means of worms strung on a thread.

1. Alternative spelling of BLOB.

1. Acronym of binary large object.

1. The section of the elite class in Washington D.C. who have moved from political or regulatory work to lobbying firms or think tanks, especially in foreign policy or on the behalf of corporations.
2. The civil service and other public bodies, perceived as prone to groupthink and acting as an obstacle to government action; the deep state.
3. A large mass of relatively warm water in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of North America that was detected in 2013 and continued to spread throughout 2014 and 2015.

Etymology

From Middle English *blob (“attested in blobby”). Possibly onomatopoeic, similarly to bleb and blubber.