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.

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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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