Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or operation of fishing with a bob.
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- verb Present participle of
bob . - noun The motion of something that
bobs .
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Examples
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I imagined some guy in the back of a white van bobbing is gun around in frustration cursing those damn mormons and their matrix-like bullet dodging abilities.
How the DC snipers hacked an ex-police car to make a killing machine - Boing Boing 2009
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The two men browsing in Benjamin Santoyo's downtown Los Angeles produce store acted like many of his customers, not so much interested in fruit and vegetables as in the enormous pinatas of Winnie the Pooh, The Incredibles, and an orange fish named Nemo, all bobbing from a string tied to the ceiling.
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And Johnny Mnemonic had that fucking awesome super-intelligent plastic dolphin bobbing up and down in a little fish tank.
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On the way back, the sword bobbing comfortingly along my leg, I met te Kiore, buckling the polished sword-club at his side.
The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992
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That's great news if you like the idea of bobbing to Gaga's mixes while waiting by the bakery case.
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I read somewhere that CRT HDTVs were incapable of outputting a true 720p/1080i picture and used a technique called bobbing and weaving to produce a faux 1080i image.
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I was talking to my friend and I wasn't paying attention to my lure, so I was kind of bobbing it up and down.
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I was talking to my friend and I wasn't paying attention to my lure, so I was kind of bobbing it up and down.
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A track circuit in the area is "bobbing," he said.
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They saw themselves as representative of the “Modern” or “New Woman,” who worked outside her home and followed current trends, such as bobbing her hair; at the same time, they tried to affirm Jewishness as compatible with Americanization.
Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Archival Resources on the History of Jewish Women in America. 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word bobbing
(noun) - The action or pastime of riding on bob-sleighs. Bobbing is carried out either on bobs (five passengers) or boblets (three passengers). --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1888
February 6, 2018