Sally wrote:
>Isn't "yob" old British slang for a criminal?
Anyone
>know how that came into English?
"Yob" means an uncouth and rowdy man, rather than a crook.
Usually found in herds. Fond of lager and casual violence.
It's typically the comfortable and blinkered middle classes
who use this term. And it's a pretty lazy one if you ask
me.
As for etymology, far as I know YOB = backwards boy.
Apocalypse Now anti-American? That's not how I read it.
Charlie Williams.
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