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, or similar medium.
The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.
To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
I bobbed my head underwater and saw the goldfish.
To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
I got my hair bobbed. How do you like it?
A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
a bob of the head
A curtsy.
Back-of-the-book; denoting those stamps in a catalogue that are not used for the payment of regular postage fees, and are displayed separately in the catalogue after that listing; the division between these two groups varies with the publisher.
A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
Miramax Films cofounders Bob and Harvey Weinstein will end their successful, but often tumultuous, 12-year relationship with The Walt Disney Company to launch their own media company.
The person or system receiving a message or signal from a source conventionally known as Alice.
The key that Alice and Bob are to share cannot be transmitted in the clear. Either it must be enciphered when sent, or Alice and Bob must derive it without an exhange of data from which the key can be derived.
From Middle English bobbe (“a cluster (of fruit); a twig with its leaves, a spray”), perhaps of Celtic origin (compare Irish baban "tassel, cluster," Gaelic babag).
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A bob haircut.
Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
Ecod! I have got them. Here they are. My cousin Con's necklaces, bobs and all.
A shilling.
One of the bottlenosed fraternity it was went by the name of James Wought alias Saphiro alias Spark and Spiro, put an ad in the papers saying he'd give a passage to Canada for twenty bob.
A 10-cent coin.
A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
The bob list determines the drawing priority […]
Vibrator (device designed to stimulate a woman's genitals).