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Meaning of Bobby | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈbɒbi

Definitions

  1. A police officer.
    Australia, British, Ireland, slang
  2. A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
  3. A penis.
    Scotland, slang
  4. A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.
  5. A railway signaller.
    Australia, British, Ireland, slang
  6. Cocaine.
    Multicultural-London-English
  7. A calf that is slaughtered in its first month, usually because it has no mother or because it is undersized or otherwise defective.
  8. A banana that is extra small in size.

Equivalents

العربية الشّرطيّ
Deutsch Bobby
Español madero picoleto Yuta
Français Bobby
Magyar zsaru
Kurdî pîes
Polski pała pies
Română curcan polițai
Türkçe aynasız

Examples

“If I am wrong, and if Lessingham’s wrong, how do you explain his extraordinary insistence on taking it inside the cab with him, which the bobby describes?”
“"We are looking at being able to fly [drones] tens of miles from base, which is going to make a huge difference. It is the equivalent of having bobbies on the beat."”
“Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody Hold that properly when I bang that dotty I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby”
“Bad one wanna give man toppy She wanna suck off, follow my crew! On the backroad serving molly, she been battling bad for the bobby Saying she is sick: It's not a flu”
“The already low proportion of Friesian and Hereford Friesian cross calves sold as bobbies declined to almost insignificant proportions and there was a very steep drop in the proportion of bobby calves in the other breeds”
“The following is the Victorian code of practice as it refers to the welfare of bobby calves.”
“All bobby calves must be fed as close as possible to, and at least within 6 hours of, the time of transportation.”
“My kids like bobby bananas, but they're in plastic.”
“It was a real irritation to Robert's parents to hear Adeline call him Bobby. They tried to intimate their disapproval by pronouncing his name very distinctly when they addressed him.”
“Legendary soul singer Bobby Womack died Friday, Womack’s publicist said. He was 70.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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