Definition of Bob

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Definition of Bob

Bob

Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail.

A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.

A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.

The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.

A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.

A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.

A working beam.

A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.

A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.

The refrain of a song.

A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.

A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.

A shilling.

To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.

To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.

To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.

To mock or delude; to cheat.

To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.

To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.

To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3.

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Bob Quotations

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
Bob Dylan

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.
Bob Marley

Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.
Conan O'Brien

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.
Christopher Walken

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
Dean Koontz

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.
Spike Lee

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.
Bob Dole

It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.
Rick Pitino

Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.
Bob Barker

Bob Translations

bob in Spanish is cogote
bob in Swedish is shilling, guppa

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