bob

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bob1

▶verb (bobs, bobbing, bobbed)

• 1 make or cause to make a quick, short movement up and down.

  ■ (often bob up) make a sudden move so as to appear or disappear.

• 2 curtsy briefly.

▶noun

• 1 a quick, short movement up and down.

• 2 a brief curtsy.

– phrases
bob and weave (of a boxer) move rapidly up and down and from side to side as an evasive tactic.
bob for apples try to catch floating apples with one's mouth, as a game.

– origin ME: of unknown origin.

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bob2

▶noun

• 1 a short hairstyle that hangs evenly all round.

• 2 a weight on a pendulum, plumb line, or kite tail.

• 3 a bobsleigh.

• 4 a short line at or towards the end of a stanza.

▶verb (bobs, bobbing, bobbed)

• 1 cut (hair) in a bob.

• 2 ride on a bobsleigh.

– origin ME (denoting a bunch or cluster): of unknown origin.

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bob3

▶noun (pl. same) Brit. informal a shilling.

– origin C18: of unknown origin.

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bob4

▶noun a change of order in bell-ringing.

– origin C17: perh. connected with bob1.

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Bob/bɒb/

▶noun (in phr. Bob's your uncle) Brit. informal used to express the ease with which a task can be achieved.