staggering bob

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English

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Noun

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staggering bob (plural staggering bobs)

  1. (UK, Ireland, obsolete) A newborn calf.
  2. (UK, Ireland, obsolete) An animal slaughtered not long before it would have died from disease or accident.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary