moob

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːb/

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• Rhymes: -uːb

Etymology 1

Blend of man +‎ boob.

Noun

moob (plural moobs)

1. (slang, usually in the plural) A plump or untoned breast on a man.
   • 1998 September 6, 6PANTERA, “Re: SUNDAY NIGHT HEAT: November 29, 1998, I'll be there...”, in t-netz.wrestling.wwf‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2016-09-12, message-ID <6svsrp$dnp@chronicle.concentric.net>:

     Vince has Moobs (man boobs = moobs)

   • 2001 September 3, miha ³, "Re: I know I shouldn't be doing this but...", in alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube, Usenet,^[2]

     Yeah, put a shirt on gene, we don't want to see your fatty moobs.

   • 2007 January 6, The Guardian:

     Often – I refer you in particular to Rod Stewart and Tony Blair – these moobs are strangely taut and unsaggy, and have that bee-stung, 12-year-old girl look.

   • 2009, Will Self, Ralph Steadman, Psycho too, page 242:

     Ranged along the sides of the broad chamber were curtained booths containing day beds, and from time to time an overweight East End cabbie would emerge from one of these, his moobs glistening with sweat, [...]

Synonyms

• man boob

Translations

male breast

• Russian: (no equivalent expression exists)
• Swedish: chipstutte (sv) c

Etymology 2

Inversion of boom (“to rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss”).

Verb

moob (third-person singular simple present moobs, present participle moobing, simple past and past participle moobed)

1. (chess engines) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position towards zero, indicating a likely draw.

   Antonym: boom

   • 2020 September 20, u/FMExperiment, “Stockfish beats Leela to inflict her first defeat in TCEC season 19 and remains the last undefeated engine!”, in Reddit‎^[3], r/chess, archived from the original on 2022-10-22:

     Stockfish was slightly moobing until Leela played Qf5. An innocuous looking move that immediately sent alarm bells ringing and Stockfishes^[sic] evaluation just kept rising.

   • 2021 May 26, Matthew Sadler, “The TCEC20 Computer Chess Superfinal: a Perspective”, in ICGA Journal, volume 43, number 1, →DOI, pages 74–87:

     The reverse was also won uneventfully by LEELA although the fish emotes were numerous in the chat as STOCKFISH 'moobed' to a mere 0.40 evaluation after its 25th move!

Noun

moob (plural moobs)

1. (chess engines) An instance of moobing.

   Antonym: boom

   • 2021 January 23, Bram Cohen, “You're doing computer chess game commentary wrong”, in Medium‎^[4], archived from the original on 2022-12-06:

     One notable exception to the missing lines being interesting: Sometimes on a moob the sudden insight is 'I'm going to hit the 50 move rule before realizing my advantage'.

   • 2022 April 22, Matthew Sadler, “TCEC Season 22 SuperFinal: Komodo Dragon vs Stockfish”, in TCEC‎^[5], archived from the original on 2022-12-13:

     The evaluation boom and moob continued as Stockfish headed for a queen-rook-knight vs queen-rook-knight position that looked pretty nasty to me!

Further reading

• gynecomastia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Boom, MOBO, boom, mobo