bob

Definitions


[bɒb], (Verb)

Definitions:
- make a quick, short movement up and down
(e.g: I could see his head bobbing about)


Phrases:
- bob and weave
- bob for apples

Origin:
late Middle English: of unknown origin


[bɒb], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a quick, short movement up and down
(e.g: she could only manage a slight bob of her head)


Phrases:
- bob and weave
- bob for apples

Origin:
late Middle English: of unknown origin


[bɒb], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a style in which the hair is cut short and evenly all round so that it hangs above the shoulders
(e.g: she wore her hair in a fashionable bob)

- a weight on a pendulum, plumb line, or kite tail

- a bobsleigh

- a short line at or near the end of a stanza


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (denoting a bunch or cluster): of unknown origin


[bɒb], (Verb)

Definitions:
- cut (someone's hair) in a bob
(e.g: she'd had her hair bobbed and highlighted)

- ride on a bobsleigh


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (denoting a bunch or cluster): of unknown origin


[bɒb], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a shilling


Phrases:
- as silly as a two-bob watch

Origin:
late 18th century: of unknown origin


[bɒb], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a change of order in bell-ringing


Phrases:

Origin:
late 17th century: perhaps connected with bob in the sense ‘sudden movement up and down’


[], (Abbreviation)

Definitions:
- Bolivian boliviano(s)


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