gob stick

noun — 3 senses

gob stick

noun

Etymology See gob (“mouth”).

1

Slang A clarinet.

Stop spouting and give us some groovy licks on that gob stick of yours.2013, R. K. Cowles, “1930s Poems: Licking the Chops”, in Slang Poetry Volume 1, →ISBN, page 57:

2

UK, Archaic, Dialectal, Slang A spoon.

3

A stick or device for removing the hook from a fish's gullet.

He […] wrenched out the hook with the short wooden stick he called a "gob-stick".1897, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 3, in Captains Courageous:

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