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UK
/bˈɒb/
]
[ US /ˈbɑb/ ]
[ US /ˈbɑb/ ]
VERB
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move up and down repeatedly
her rucksack bobbed gently on her back - remove or shorten the tail of an animal
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cut hair in the style of a bob
Bernice bobs her hair these days! -
ride a bobsled
The boys bobbed down the hill screaming with pleasure -
make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect
She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand
NOUN
- a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
- a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
- a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
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a short abrupt inclination (as of the head)
he gave me a short bob of acknowledgement
How To Use bob In A Sentence
- She was in her sixties and wore her thinning gray hair pulled back in a loose bun with all but a few strands secured by bobby pins.
- Marya shook her head, her neatly bobbed dark hair brushing against high cheekbones.
- Bobileff and crew fettled and cajoled and fairly bullwhipped the old beast back together, then fired her up and into a transporter just hours before the show.
- This link is sort of off-topic but really not, as it's yet another case (as in the present one) of the media doing their level best to shout down "the critics" -- the nattering nabobs of negativism -- and then, years later, admitting that the "gadflies" were right all along, and that what looked like a scam, walked like a scam, and quacked like a scam was -- quelle surprise! Funky math with Mark Larabee (Jack Bog's Blog)
- She threw down the book and hurtled the bobbin of thread across the room.
- The prodigiously capable Louise, for instance, is weighing the relative claims upon her imagination of long jumping and bobsleigh.
- I have seen human bathers acting just like the birds, though from a different cause, bobbing down towards the water, but afraid to dip their heads, and the idea of comicality arose, as it does in most of the ludicrous actions of animals, from their resemblance to those of mankind. The Naturalist in Nicaragua
- Os ydy'r drefn yn cael ei mabwysiadu un o'r dewisiadau pwysicaf fydd penderfynu p'un ai i ganiatáu i bobol pleidleisio "uwchben y lein" sef y drefn sy'n cael ei defnyddio yn Awstralia. BBC Blog Network
- Bob squeezed his muscular shoulders into the narrow confines of the top turret.
- Bob Miller, the Kings' play-by-play announcer since 1973 and a Hockey Hall of Fame media honoree, is scheduled to undergo what he called a precautionary surgical procedure on Latimes.com - News