Definitions for bob
bɒbbob

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. British shilling, shilling, bobnoun

   a former monetary unit in Great Britain

2. bobnoun

   a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around

3. bobsled, bobsleigh, bobnoun

   a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism

4. bobnoun

   a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string

5. bob, bobber, cork, bobfloatnoun

   a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line

6. bobtail, bob, docknoun

   a short or shortened tail of certain animals

7. bobverb

   a short abrupt inclination (as of the head)

   "he gave me a short bob of acknowledgement"

8. bobverb

   move up and down repeatedly

   "her rucksack bobbed gently on her back"

9. bobsled, bobverb

   ride a bobsled

   "The boys bobbed down the hill screaming with pleasure"

10. dock, tail, bobverb

    remove or shorten the tail of an animal

11. curtsy, bobverb

    make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect

    "She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand"

12. bobverb

    cut hair in the style of a bob

    "Bernice bobs her hair these days!"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bobnoun

   A bobbing motion.

2. bobnoun

   A bobber.

3. bob

   A curtsy.

4. bobverb

   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.

5. bobverb

   To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.

6. bob

   To curtsy.

7. bobnoun

   A bob haircut.

8. bobnoun

   The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.

9. bob

   The docked tail of a horse.

10. bob

    A short line ending a stanza of a poem.

11. bob

    The short runner of a sled.

12. bobverb

    To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.

    I got my hair bobbed. How do you like it?

13. bobverb

    To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop

14. bob

    Short form of bobsleigh

15. bobnoun

    A shilling.

16. bobnoun

    An unspecified amount of money.

17. bobnoun

    A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.

18. Bobnoun

    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.

19. Bobnoun

    A diminutive of the male given name Robert.

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bobnoun

   Etymology: from the verb neuter.

   1. Something that hangs so as to play loosely; generally an ornament at the ear; a pendant; an ear-ring.

   The gaudy gossip, when she’s set agog,
   In jewels drest, and at each ear a bob. John Dryden, Juv. sat. vi.

   2. The word repeated at the end of a stanza.

   To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song. Roger L'Estrange.

   3. A blow.

   I am sharply taunted, yea, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs. Roger Ascham, Schoolmaster.

2. To BOBverb

   1.To cut. Franciscus Junius.

   Etymology: of uncertain etymology; Stephen Skinner deduces it from bobo, foolish, Span.

   2. To beat; to drum; to bang.

   Those bastard Britons, whom our fathers
   Have in their own land beaten, bobb’d, and thump’d. William Shakespeare, Richard III.

   3. To cheat; to gain by fraud.

   I have bobbed his brain more than he has beat my bones. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida.

   Live, Rodorigo!
   He calls me to a restitution large,
   Of gold and jewels, that I bobb’d, from him,
   As gifts to Desdemona. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   Here we have been worrying one another, who should have the booty, till this cursed fox has bobbed us both on’t. Roger L'Estrange.

3. To Bobverb

   To play backward and forward; to play loosely against any thing.

   And sometimes lurk I in a gossip’s bowl,
   In very likeness of a roasted crab;
   And when she drinks, against her lips I bob,
   And on her wither’d dewlap pour the ale. Midsum. N. Dr.

   They comb, and then they order ev’ry hair;
   A birthday jewel bobbing at their ear. John Dryden, Persius, sat. i.

   You may tell her,
   I’m rich in jewels, rings, and bobbing pearls,
   Pluck’d from Moors ears. John Dryden, Spanish Friar.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bob

   A bob is often used to refer to a particular style of haircut which is typically short and straight, cut evenly around the head at about jaw-level, with bangs at the front. It can also refer to a movable weight used in certain types of clocks and scientific instruments. It can also be a shortened nickname for the name Robert.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bobnoun

   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

2. Bobnoun

   a knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait

3. Bobnoun

   a small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float

4. Bobnoun

   the ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line

5. Bobnoun

   a small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc

6. Bobnoun

   a short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head

7. Bobnoun

   a working beam

8. Bobnoun

   a knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig

9. Bobnoun

   a peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells

10. Bobnoun

    the refrain of a song

11. Bobnoun

    a blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist

12. Bobnoun

    a jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick

13. Bobnoun

    a shilling

14. Bobnoun

    to cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob

15. Bobnoun

    to strike with a quick, light blow; to tap

16. Bobnoun

    to cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch

17. Bobnoun

    to mock or delude; to cheat

18. Bobnoun

    to cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail

19. Bobverb

    to have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything

20. Bobverb

    to angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bob

   bob, v.i. to move quickly up and down, to dangle: to fish with a bob.—v.t. to move in a short, jerking manner:—pr.p. bob′bing; pa.p. bobbed.—n. a short jerking motion: a slight blow: anything that moves with a bob or swing: a pendant: a knot of hair, as in Bob′-wig, one with the ends turned up into short curls: a bunch of lobworms, used in catching eels: any small roundish body: the refrain or burden of a song: a term in bell-ringing—a Bob minor is rung upon six bells; a Bob major on eight; a Bob royal on ten; a Bob maximus on twelve.—adj. Bob′bish, in good spirits.—n. Bob′ble, the movement of water in commotion. [Perh. Celt., Gael. baban, babag.]

2. Bob

   bob, n. (slang) a shilling. [Hardly the O. Fr. bobe = 1½d.]

3. Bob

   bob, Bobby, bob′i, n. a shortened familiar form of Robert: a familiar name for a policeman—from Sir Robert Peel, Home Secretary at the passing of the Metropolitan Police Act of 1828.—n. Light′-bob, a soldier of the light infantry.

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bob

   A knot of worms on a string, used in fishing for eels; also colloquially, it means a berth.--Shift your bob, to move about, to dodge, to fish.--Bear a bob, make haste, be brisk.

2. bob

   The ball or balance-weight of a clock's pendulum; the weight attached to the plumb-line.

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1. bob

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2. BOB

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BOB

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bob is ranked #19223 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Bob surname appeared 1,412 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bob.
   
   43.2% or 611 total occurrences were Black.
   31.8% or 450 total occurrences were White.
   13.6% or 192 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   4.1% or 59 total occurrences were Asian.
   3.6% or 51 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   3.4% or 49 total occurrences were of two or more races.

Matched Categories

1. • British Monetary Unit
   • Coif
   • Cut
   • Float
   • Greet
   • Hairdo
   • Move
   • Sled
   • Sport
   • Weight

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bob' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2676

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bob' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1755

Anagrams for bob »

1. obb

How to pronounce bob?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say bob in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bob in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bob in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of bob in a Sentence

1. Craig Detweiler:

   The network is waiting to see whether Jim Bob and Michelle can dig their family out of this substantial hole that they've created.

2. Joseph Luby:

   He hears voices over the TV, over the prison intercom, everywhere, he believes that Gov. Nixon, St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch and others are giving him messages about his case.

3. The Orchard -RRB- Young:

   We were traveling back one time to New York City from Jersey at one o’clock in the morning, and Bob didn’t trust drivers, so he wanted to drive himself from a gig. We pulled behind a dumpster in a shady neighborhood. Bob had to go to the bathroom so bad before we got to the tunnel. I said, ‘Bob, I don’t know if this is a good idea.’ He pulls behind the dumpster to go to the bathroom. And within three seconds, a carload of what looked to me like gang members got out of the car. I’m like, ‘We’re about to get robbed in Jersey City.’.

4. Dick DeGuerin:

   We hope to resolve all other charges right away so that Bob can be transferred to California for trial.

5. Candace Cameron:

   I have no words. Bob was one of the best humans beings I’ve ever known in my life. I loved him so much.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bob
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bob
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=bob
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bob
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=bob
7. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Bob
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=bob
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html