Definitions for bobbɒb

bobbɒb(n.; v.)bobbed, bob•bing.

(n.)a short, jerky motion:
a bob of the head.
(v.t.)to move quickly down and up.
to indicate with such a motion:
to bob a greeting.
(v.i.)to make a jerky motion with the head or body.
to move about with jerky, usu. rising and falling motions:
The ball bobbed upon the waves.
bob up, to appear unexpectedly.
Category: Verb Phrase

1400–50; late ME bobben. See bob2

bobbɒb(n.; v.)bobbed, bob•bing.

(n.)a short, caplike haircut.
Category: Clothing
a docked horse's tail.
a dangling or terminal object, as the weight on a pendulum or a plumb line.
Category: Machinery
a float for a fishing line.
Category: Sport
a bobsled or bob skate.
Category: Sport
(v.t.)to cut short; dock:
to bob one's hair.
Category: Clothing
(v.i.)to try to snatch floating or dangling objects with the teeth:
to bob for apples.

1300–50; ME bobbe (n.) spray, cluster

bobbɒb(n.; v.)bobbed, bob•bing.

1350–1400; ME bobben to strike, beat, perh. imit. See bop2

bobbɒb(n.)(pl.)bob.

1780–90

British shilling, shilling, bob(noun)
a former monetary unit in Great Britain
bob(noun)
a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
bobsled, bobsleigh, bob(noun)
a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
bob(noun)
a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
bob, bobber, cork, bobfloat(noun)
a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
bobtail, bob, dock(noun)
a short or shortened tail of certain animals
bob(verb)
a short abrupt inclination (as of the head)
"he gave me a short bob of acknowledgement"
bob(verb)
move up and down repeatedly
"her rucksack bobbed gently on her back"
bobsled, bob(verb)
ride a bobsled
"The boys bobbed down the hill screaming with pleasure"
dock, tail, bob(verb)
remove or shorten the tail of an animal
curtsy, bob(verb)
make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect
"She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand"
bob(verb)
cut hair in the style of a bob
"Bernice bobs her hair these days!"

bob(Noun)
A bobbing motion.
bob(Noun)
A bobber.
bob
A curtsy.
bob(Verb)
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.
bob(Verb)
To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
bob
To curtsy.
bob(Noun)
A bob haircut.
bob(Noun)
The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
bob
The docked tail of a horse.
bob
A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
bob
The short runner of a sled.
bob(Verb)
To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
I got my hair bobbed. How do you like it?
bob(Verb)
To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop
bob
Short form of bobsleigh
bob(Noun)
A shilling.
bob(Noun)
An unspecified amount of money.
bob(Noun)
A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
Bob(ProperNoun)
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Bob(ProperNoun)
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.

Origin: fortuitously spelling out the male given name Bob in the case of the humorous colloquial definition.

Bob(noun)
anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail
Bob(noun)
a knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait
Bob(noun)
a small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float
Bob(noun)
the ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line
Bob(noun)
a small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc
Bob(noun)
a short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head
Bob(noun)
a working beam
Bob(noun)
a knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig
Bob(noun)
a peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells
Bob(noun)
the refrain of a song
Bob(noun)
a blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist
Bob(noun)
a jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick
Bob(noun)
a shilling
Bob(noun)
to cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob
Bob(noun)
to strike with a quick, light blow; to tap
Bob(noun)
to cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch
Bob(noun)
to mock or delude; to cheat
Bob(noun)
to cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail
Bob(verb)
to have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything
Bob(verb)
to angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3

bob
At Demon Internet, all tech support personnel are called “Bob”. (Female support personnel have an option on “Bobette”). This has nothing to do with Bob the divine drilling-equipment salesman of the Church of the SubGenius. Nor is it acronymized from “Brother Of BOFH”, though all parties agree it could have been. Rather, it was triggered by an unusually large draft of new tech-support people in 1995. It was observed that there would be much duplication of names. To ease the confusion, it was decided that all support techs would henceforth be known as “Bob”, and identity badges were created labelled “Bob 1” and “Bob 2”. (“No, we never got any further” reports a witness).The reason for “Bob” rather than anything else is due to a luser calling and asking to speak to “Bob”, despite the fact that no “Bob” was currently working for Tech Support. Since we all know “the customer is always right”, it was decided that there had to be at least one “Bob” on duty at all times, just in case.This sillyness snowballed inexorably. Shift leaders and managers began to refer to their groups of “bobs”. Whole ranks of support machines were set up (and still exist in the DNS as of 1999) as bob1 through bobN. Then came alt.tech-support.recovery, and it was filled with Demon support personnel. They all referred to themselves, and to others, as “bob”, and after a while it caught on. There is now a Bob Code describing the Bob nature.