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n. - A cruel and brutal fellow.

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Usage examples (31)
  • He called for the female time traveller to be accompanied by a trumpet playing schoolgirl in "John Lennon-type spectacles" and her graffiti-spraying "yobbo" elder brother.
  • As a Kiwi who has also lived for many years in the UK, I think quite a few of the above slang terms are shared by all 3 countries. eg I thought "yobbo" & "thongs"...
  • Not all of them, but the yobbo factor is so high, I normally root for any team but England.
  • But she can be such a yobbo and reminds me of my less-educated relatives (that is all of them).
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