bob
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Is bob a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (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, or similar medium.Examples: "The cork bobbed gently in the calm water."; "The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water."; "The flowers were bobbing in the wind."intransitive
2. (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.Examples: "I bobbed my head underwater and saw the goldfish."; "bob one’s head"transitive
3. (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.Examples: "She bobbed on his knob."transitivewith-on
4. (intransitive) Synonym of blob (“catch eels using worms strung on thread”).Examples: "After they had had supper Frank said, Do you remember those men whom we saw near Norwich, who sat in small boats all the night long, and with a line in each hand, bobbed for eels?"Synonyms: blobintransitive
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.Examples: "A plain brown bob he wore."obsolete
2. (obsolete) The refrain of a song.Examples: "Ay, Ay, and Then to Bed, ſays the Bride. This Girl did but ſpeak the Widows Mind; for let Fleſh and Blood pretend what it will, to Bed, to Bed, will be the Bob of the Song."obsolete
3. (obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.Examples: "Hee, that a Foole doth very wiſely hit, Doth very fooliſhly, although he ſmart, Seeme ſenſeleſſe of the bob."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.Examples: "I got my hair bobbed. How do you like it?"transitive
2. (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.transitive
noun (English)
1. (Kenya, slang; UK and Australia, historical, dated) A shilling.Examples: "One of the bottlenosed fraternity it was went by the name of James Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro, put an ad in the papers saying he'd give a passage to Canada for twenty bob."; "“’Ere y’are, the best rig-out you ever ’ad. A tosheroon [half a crown]^([sic]) for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf. That’s seven bob.”"; "[…] there was a sound of barking and a great hefty dog of the Hound of the Baskervilles type came galloping at me, obviously intent on mayhem,[…]. And I was just commending my soul to God and thinking that this was where my new flannel trousers got about thirty bobs' worth of value bitten out of them, […]"AustraliaKenyaUKdatedhistoricalslang
2. (Australia, dated slang) A 10-cent coin.Australiadatedslang
3. (slang) An unspecified amount of money.Examples: "Spot me a few bob, Robert."; "I could have saved myself a few bob buying it somewhere else."; "A great many visitors are expected. They will take pictures of each other under the cherry blossoms and—the Chamber of Commerce hopes—spend a few bobs for hot logs, gasoline, eastern finery and souvenirs of the nation’s capital."slang
noun (English)
1. (computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.Examples: "The bob list determines the drawing priority […]"; "IMHO, youd ^([sic]) be better doing other things with the CPU and letting the blitter draw bobs, esp on a machine with fast ram."; "Changes: This release adds 2 new effects (bobs and unlimited bobs), has a GFX directory for sharing graphics, adds utility functions to the common code"
noun (English)
1. (humorous) Vibrator (device designed to stimulate a woman's genitals).humorous
Definition source: Wiktionary