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English

Noun

paybob (plural paybobs)

  1. (UK, naval slang) An accountant.
    • 1979, W. B. Harvey, Downstairs in the Royal Navy, page 60:
      A form book about as helpful as the old Greek oracles is thus produced and guides the odds given by the numerous illegal bookmakers who compete with the tote run by the paybobs on each ship.
    • 2015, Cyril Tawney, Grey Funnel Lines, page 141:
      Sod all the Shipwrights and CPO Cooks,
      Sod all the Paybobs and their bleeding books
      For we're saying goodbye to them all
      As back to their hammocks they crawl.