A wonderfully vivid slang term for a harmonica — specifically the simple, diatonic kind you might find in a blues musician's shirt pocket or a busker's case. 'Gob' is British and Australian slang for mouth, and 'iron' nods to the metal construction, making the compound both descriptive and slightly unglamorous. It's the sort of name that sounds like it was coined by someone who thought harmonicas were a bit too earnest to get a fancy title.
He pulled a battered gob iron from his jacket and started playing a Delta blues riff right there on the platform.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(slang) A simple harmonica.
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