Meaning of Lob | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Abbreviation of large object.
   abbreviation, alt-of
2. A pass or stroke which arcs high into the air.
3. A lump.
4. A fish, the European pollock.
5. A long bob haircut.
6. A form of fraud in which a person asks for change in a shop, palms some of the coins, and tells the shopkeeper that he has not given them enough.
   UK, obsolete, slang
7. A surname.
8. Initialism of line of business.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
9. A country bumpkin; a yokel.
   obsolete
10. Initialism of limit order book, an order book of limit orders.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
11. A clumsy person.
12. Initialism of live on board (i.e. liveaboard)
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
13. The person who comes last in a race.
14. A lob-worm.

Equivalents

Examples

“The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.”

“Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left.”

“And, moreover, I had no sooner set my eyes on the keys, than I remembered where there was a lob of money lying in Purcell's safe, that I —”

“Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon.”

“THE country lob trudged home very much concerned and thoughtful, you may swear; insomuch that his good woman, seeing him thus look moping, weened that something had been stolen from him at market […]”

“Some are acute for the Lob; which is, going into a Shop to have a Guinea or Pistole chang'd, and the Change being given, the bringer of the Gold telling it over, Palms Two or Three Shillings, then returning the Money, says there wants so much, which the Shop-keeper telling over again, and finding short, very innocently crys 'tis true, and makes up the Summ.”

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