Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Tumult; uproar.
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- verb Present participle of
lob .
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Examples
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Giving CPR is intensely pressured and difficult enough without a hostile crowd within lobbing distance.
Ooooh….. I didn’t know that! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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It just goes to show you that Star Trek fans aren’t alone in lobbing this criticism at our favorite show.
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It just goes to show you that Star Trek fans aren’t alone in lobbing this criticism at our favorite show.
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Why are they so fired up over the party-crashers when they completely ignored the male whore under an assumed name lobbing Bush's press secretary big fat softballs.
Think Progress 2009
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The idea that the US can start 'lobbing' nukes around ME and no one - China or Russia - will stop us is INSANE.
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And of course, oppressed people, long steeped in the ways of violence, will reach for desperate measures, such as lobbing rockets.
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For "lobbing" is nothing more than basically just a legalized, disguised, sanctioned form of BRIBERY.
Teknosis 2009
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• North Korean President Kim Jong Il keeps lobbing bombs into South Korea until someone on his team develops a formula to spin turkey pot pies out of grass.
Will Durst: Predictions for 2011 Will Durst 2011
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At least in this case there will be more actual fly-casting involved instead of the endless lobbing upstream that deep nymphing requires.
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Sure, he dumps Hellfire missiles from un-manned drones in what seems a Clintonesque version of lobbing Tomahawk missiles from way far away.
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