(Internet, informal, humorous) Obligatory; prepended to the name of a topic being mentioned to avoid accusations of being off-topic.

A river in Russia; the westernmost of the three great Siberian rivers.

(category theory) The set of objects of a category.

(sports) Initialism of Olympic best. / (television, radio) Initialism of outside broadcast. / Initialism of old boy. (male graduate; also a CB radio operator's term of address for a male)

Abbreviation of obstetric. / (golf) Initialism of out of bounds. / Abbreviation of obligatory. (as in "ob. link" on Usenet) (see ObLink at c2.com; see also ob-) / Abbreviation of Old Babylonian.

Alternative form of obs (obsolete)

Abbreviation of obsolete (as a gloss for words in dictionaries) / Abbreviation of observed

(medicine) Observation(s) (blood pressure, temperature, etc).

(slang) police observation / An observation hut.

plural of ob