Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, knoblike pendent object, such as a plumb bob.
- noun A small lock or curl of hair.
- noun A woman's or child's short haircut.
- noun Informal Surgical shortening or reshaping of the nose.
- noun The docked tail of a horse.
- noun A bobsled.
- noun A bob skate.
- transitive verb To cut short or reshape.
- noun A shilling.
- intransitive verb To move up and down.
- intransitive verb To grab at floating or hanging objects with the teeth.
- intransitive verb To fish with a bobber.
- intransitive verb To curtsy or bow.
- intransitive verb To cause to move up and down.
- noun A quick, jerky movement of the head or body.
- noun A bobber used in fishing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
shilling . - noun A 10-cent coin.
- noun An unspecified amount of money.
- verb intransitive To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water.
- verb transitive To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- verb To
curtsy . - noun A bobbing motion.
- noun A
bobber . - noun A
curtsy . - noun Abbreviation of
shishkabob . - noun computer graphics A
graphical element , resembling ahardware sprite , that can beblitted around the screen in large numbers. - noun A
bob haircut . - noun Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it
- noun The dangling mass of a
pendulum orplumb line . - noun The
docked tail of a horse. - noun A short line ending a
stanza of apoem . - noun The short
runner of asled . - verb transitive To cut (hair) into a
bob haircut . - verb transitive To shorten by cutting; to
dock ; tocrop - verb Short form of
bobsleigh
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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She kept refering to me as “Hacker Bob” So, in the spirit of fun I started with roberthacker bob then just hacker bob.
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Recent Comments market folly: yea natgas undoubtedly ripped a lot of people's faces off C. Maoxian: @bob: I think HotTrend was a Reuters in-house project that they abandoned for some inexplicable reason -- ... bob: and hottrend was bought by realtick from someone ... hottrend is the main reason i subscribe to RT.
Maoxian 2008
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I mean surely no one thinks a law that fined churches whose beliefs included specific support for electing certain people (“crazy cult leader bob is the son of god and it is his divine destiny to be elected president and your duty is to support him” might be a dumb belief but surely deserving of 1st ammendment protection).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax? 2010
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Count ol 'Del in with Clay on the 25-06, the 25 bob is another good round but ammo would be hard to find.
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Count ol 'Del in with Clay on the 25-06, the 25 bob is another good round but ammo would be hard to find.
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February 10th, 2009 at 12: 22 am no, adam, bob is not “right.” he is defending the indefensible.
Matthew Yglesias » Steele: Cops, Firefighters, Soldiers, Postmen, Teachers All Secretly Unemployed 2009
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Ryan on Jul 27, 2008 bob is the man, get him for next year comic-con.
Bob $tencil's Comic-Con Day 3 Video Recap and Blog! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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REAL6 on Aug 12, 2008 what an injustice this would be if billy bob is cast as freddy. englund is freddy and NO ONE could EVER fill his shoes! it would have to be a nobody if this was to even have a chance at making any money or get die hard nightmare fans to go and sewe this one. bad bad bad idea. thejugfather on Aug 12, 2008
Rumor: Billy Bob Thornton as Freddy Krueger?! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Early effort to work out the precise proportional relationship between length and heaviness of bang and length and degree of layering in bob, while taking into consideration variations on colour (experimenting with taking strawberry blonde into the deeper, more burnished reds) and angle of cut (angle forward along chin line).
brtom commented on the word bob
Three bob I lent him in Meagher's.
Joyce, Ulysses, 7
January 2, 2007
hernesheir commented on the word bob
Code for Motu Mute Airport, Bora Bora, French Polynesia.
December 29, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word bob
"‘bob’ has been looked up 1172 times, loved by 2 people, added to 35 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 7. It's also a palindrome."
Did you see that? It's also a palindrome! (So cool!)
November 30, 2011
gangerh commented on the word bob
Bob the Builder.
February 28, 2014