Meaning of Bob | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
2. A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
3. A generic male person.
4. A bob haircut.
5. Vibrator (device designed to stimulate a woman's genitals).
   humorous
6. Acronym of bur oak blight (“a fungal disease of plants”).
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
7. A shilling.
   Australia, Kenya, New-Zealand, UK, dated, historical, slang
8. Clipping of shishkabob.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
9. A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
10. The person or system receiving a message or signal from a source conventionally known as Alice.
11. A curtsy.
12. Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
13. A 10-cent coin, ten cents.
    Australia, dated, slang
14. A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
15. The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
16. An unspecified amount of money.
    slang
17. Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
18. The docked tail of a horse.
19. The short runner of a sled.
20. A bobsleigh.
21. A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
22. A working beam in a steam engine.
23. A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
24. A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
25. A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
    obsolete
26. The refrain of a song.
    obsolete
27. A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
28. A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“a bob of the head”

“Or yellow bobs turn’d up before the plough / Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enough.”

“Ecod! I have got them. Here they are. My cousin Con's necklaces, bobs and all.”

“A plain brown bob he wore.”

“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.”

“Hee, that a Foole doth very wiſely hit, Doth very fooliſhly, although he ſmart, Seeme ſenſeleſſe of the bob.”

“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, […]”

“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.”

“It was a Molotov cocktail to dispose of my mortal remains. / “Cor, what a beauty.” / “Hello, somebody’s thrown a match into a box of fireworks; easy to do.” / “A few bobs’ worth of whizzers gone up there, Mabel.””

“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”

“Miramax Films cofounders Bob and Harvey Weinstein will end their successful, but often tumultuous, 12-year relationship with The Walt Disney Company to launch their own media company.”

“For the last decade at least, the trend seems to be that more untraditional names are being chosen over the Bobs, the Toms, the Sues and the Marys.”

“The key that Alice and Bob are to share cannot be transmitted in the clear. Either it must be enciphered when sent, or Alice and Bob must derive it without an exhange of data from which the key can be derived.”

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