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• n  a lump or chunk of raw meat

• Before he took his seat at the table he put his masticated gobbet not behind his ear, as is a popular fashion, but in his ear.
• First gobbet of muck he forked up was a million-dollar conspiracy among city and county officials, policemen and gamblers to operate a baseball pool.
• He folded back the skin above and below it, then cut out a little gobbet of flesh which embraced the site of the implant.