See also: dirty ice salt slob slur ice slush ice
-  After attending and assisting at a marriage which he was solemnizing, I crossed through the "slob ice," which was very thick in Conception Bay, to Port de Grave, four leagues, in three hours.
- 1878  The bay here was caught over last week, and a string of "slob" made its appearance across the mouth, but the heavy sea of Thursday broke it all up.
- 1930  The first ice is called "slob," which is of a slushy nature and gathers along the coast in bays and shallow water. The "slob" checks wave action and permits young ice to form out from the shore.
- 1957  Two or three times, when crossing lakes, we got bogged down in surface "slob" and most of the passengers had to walk through slush. . . .
- 1964  Heavy slob ice is beginning to put the squeeze on the east and northeast coasts of Newfoundland. . . .