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Etymology: Acronym, fortuitously spelling out the male given name Bob in the case of the humorous colloquial definition.


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proper noun 
  1. (given name, male, , ) A short form of the male given name Robert.
    1. In various fields such as cryptography and physics, a conventional name for the person or system that receives a message from another person or system conventionally known as Alice.

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noun (plural bobs except as shown below)
  1. A bobbing motion.
  2. A bob haircut.
  3. (plural ) A shilling.
Beer"s gone up two bob a pint.
  1. Short form of bobsleigh
  2. shishkabob
  3. The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
Translations: (trans-top, bobbing motion)
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(trans-bottom) bob haircut
See bob haircut shilling
See shilling verb (bob, b, ing)
  1. (intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water.
The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.
The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water.
  1. (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
I bobbed my head under water and saw the goldfish.
bob one's head (= to nod)
Translations: (trans-top, move vertically at surface of water)
(trans-mid)
(trans-bottom) (trans-top, move (something) as though it were bobbing in water)
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