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1. mod. enormous; unwieldy. (Like Herman Melville's great white whale, Moby Dick.)  This is a very moby old car.
2. n. a megabyte, a measurement of computer memory size. (A megabyte is whale-sized compared to a kilobyte.)  My fixed disks give me a capacity of over two thousand mobies.
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang:

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noun
Also mobie Also mobie
noun, Brit

A mobile phone. (1997 —) .
C. Hall Get her on the old mobie! (1997).

[From mob(ile + -y.]


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