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    bob
    [bäb]
    verb
    bob (verb) · bobs (third person present) · bobbed (past tense) · bobbed (past participle) · bobbing (present participle)
    1. (of a thing) make a quick short movement up and down:
      "I could see his red head bobbing around" · "the boat bobbed up and down"
      • cause (something) to make a quick short movement up and down:
        "she bobbed her head"
      • make a sudden move in a particular direction so as to appear or disappear:
        "a lady bobbed up from beneath the counter"
      • move up and down briefly in a curtsy:
        "she bobbed and turned away"
    noun
    bob (noun) · bobs (plural noun)
    1. a movement up and down:
      "she could only manage a slight bob of her head"
      • another term for bobber
      • a curtsy:
        "the maid scurried away with a bob"
    Origin
    late Middle English: of unknown origin.
    bob
    [bäb]
    noun
    bob (noun) · bobs (plural noun)
    1. a style in which the hair is cut short and evenly all around so that it hangs above the shoulders:
      "she wore her hair in a fashionable bob"
    2. a weight on a pendulum, plumb line, or kite tail.
    3. a bobsled.
    4. a short line at or near the end of a stanza.
    5. a horse's tail docked short.
    verb
    bob (verb) · bobs (third person present) · bobbed (past tense) · bobbed (past participle) · bobbing (present participle)
    1. cut (someone's hair) in a bob:
      "she'd had her hair bobbed and highlighted"
    2. ride on a bobsled.
    Origin
    late Middle English (denoting a bunch or cluster): of unknown origin.
    bob
    [bäb]
    noun
    BRITISH ENGLISH
    informal
    bob (noun) · bob (plural noun)
    1. a shilling.
      • used with reference to a moderately large but unspecified amount of money:
        "those vases are worth a few bob"
    Origin
    late 18th century: of unknown origin.
    bob
    [bäb]
    noun
    bob (noun) · bobs (plural noun)
    1. a change of order in bell-ringing.
      • used in names of change-ringing methods:
        "plain bob" · "bob minor"
    Origin
    late 17th century: perhaps connected with bob in the sense ‘sudden movement up and down’.
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    verb
    1. (of a thing) make a quick short movement up and down:
     
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  2. bob 1 [ bob ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA noun a short, jerky motion: a bob of the head.
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    bob /bɒb/ vb (bobs, bobbing, bobbed) to move or cause to move up and down repeatedly, as while floating in water to move or cause to move with a short abrupt movement, as of the head (intransitive) usually followed by up: to appear or emerge suddenly
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