Usually means: Emotional tale eliciting sympathy, pity.
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  1. sob story: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sob story: Merriam-Webster
  3. sob story: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sob story: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sob story: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sob story: Vocabulary.com
  7. sob-story: Wordnik
  8. sob story: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sob story: Wiktionary
  10. sob story: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sob story: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sob story: Dictionary.com
  13. sob story: Rhymezone
  14. sob-story: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. sob story: FreeDictionary.org
  16. sob story: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. sob story: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sob story: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sob story: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (sob story)

noun:  (idiomatic, chiefly derogatory) A sad story, especially one intended to elicit sympathy.

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