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Yop vs Yob - What's the difference?

yop | yob |

As a noun yop

is a person employed under the youth opportunities programme in britain in the 1980s.

As an interjection yop

is affirmative.

As an abbreviation yob is

(year of birth).

yop

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • Youth Opportunity Program, a British youth employment programme of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Introduced by the government but popularly associated with Thatcherism. Replaced by the YTS.

    • yob

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pejorative, chiefly, British, Australia, NZ, slang) A person who engages in antisocial behavior/behaviour and/or drunkenness.
  • * 2010 , Paul R. Wilson, The Birthday of Eternity , page 209
    • As we left the cemetary, I heard an elderly gravedigger muttering back slang to himself before Lucien's headstone. "Bloody shame, ain't it? Doubt the yob' did much living by eighteen."
    I corrected the man, saying, “No fear, that '''''yob     did plenty of living.”

    Synonyms

    * (standard register) hooligan * (British) tearaway, chav * (Chiefly Australian slang) yobbo * (Geordie slang) charva

    Derived terms

    * yobbo

    Anagrams

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