Definitions | BOB |
| Etymology: Acronym, fortuitously spelling out the male given name Bob in the case of the humorous colloquial definition.
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| Bob |
| proper noun - (given name, male, , ) A short form of the male given name Robert.
- In various fields such as cryptography and physics, a conventional name for the person or system that receives a message from another person or system conventionally known as Alice.
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| bob |
| noun (plural bobs except as shown below)
- A bobbing motion.
- A bob haircut.
- (plural ) A shilling.
- Beer"s gone up two bob a pint.
- Short form of bobsleigh
- shishkabob
- The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
Translations: (trans-top, bobbing motion)
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bob haircut
See bob haircut
shilling
See shilling
verb (bob, b, ing)
- (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.
- The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.
- The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water.
- (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- I bobbed my head under water and saw the goldfish.
- bob one's head (= to nod)
Translations: (trans-top, move vertically at surface of water)
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(trans-top, move (something) as though it were bobbing in water)
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