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Bob   /bɑb/   Listen
Bob

noun
1.
A former monetary unit in Great Britain.  Synonyms: British shilling, shilling.
2.
A hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around.
3.
A long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism.  Synonyms: bobsled, bobsleigh.
4.
A hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string.
5.
A small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line.  Synonyms: bobber, bobfloat, cork.
6.
A short or shortened tail of certain animals.  Synonyms: bobtail, dock.
7.
A short abrupt inclination (as of the head).
verb
(past & past part. bobbed; pres. part. bobbing)
1.
Move up and down repeatedly.
2.
Ride a bobsled.  Synonym: bobsled.
3.
Remove or shorten the tail of an animal.  Synonyms: dock, tail.
4.
Make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect.  Synonym: curtsy.
5.
Cut hair in the style of a bob.



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"Bob" Quotes from Famous Books



... high overhead, or rowed their way on with long slow strokes of their great wings, or danced their strange reels and cotillions in the twilight; and from the myriad voices of curlew, plover, gopher, bob-o-link, meadowlark, dick-cissel, killdeer and the rest—day-sounds and night-sounds, dawn-sounds and dusk-sounds—more inspiration than did the stolid Dutch boy plodding west across Iowa that spring of 1855, ...
— Vandemark's Folly • Herbert Quick

... since been told that I was misinformed as to the burial-place of Bob Roy; if so, I may plead in excuse that I wrote on apparently good authority, namely, that of a well-educated lady, who lived at the head of the Lake, within a mile, or less, of the point indicated as containing the remains of one so famous in that neighbourhood. [Note prefixed.—The history ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth

... Tom. "That grand beauty of a young lady, the pride of the school? Why, everybody is talking about her. At the boys' school they've caught sight of her, and there isn't a boy that hasn't fallen in love with her. They all slink behind the wall, and bob up as she comes by. You don't mean that she's ...
— The Rebel of the School • Mrs. L. T. Meade

... for'ard, sir, and see what ails Bob—young Mr Manners, I mean, sir?" said a voice which the skipper recognised as belonging to one of the seamen. "He's on the fo'c's'le-head, a cussing and carrying on as if he was mad, sir; and two of the hands is holding him down so's he ...
— The Missing Merchantman • Harry Collingwood

... near, making his way savagely towards the stables, there thrust himself in the way Bob Woodfall, the good-natured champion of the village—six feet two inches and fourteen stone of bone and muscle, good cricket and five years' war record, dressed in country-made flannels, ready for his place in the ...
— Ambrotox and Limping Dick • Oliver Fleming


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