bob : Idioms & Phrases

• verb move up and down with no specific path
  bob about.
  
  • the cork bobbed around in the pool

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• verb move up and down with no specific path
  bob about.
  
  • the cork bobbed around in the pool

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• noun United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941)
  Dylan.
  

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• noun United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003)
  Leslie Townes Hope; Hope.
  

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• noun Jamaican singer who popularized reggae (1945-1981)
  Robert Nesta Marley; Marley.
  

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• noun United States athlete who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon (born in 1930)
  Mathias; Robert Bruce Mathias.
  

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• verb disappear suddenly, as if under the surface of a body of water
  

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• verb originate or come into being
  come up; arise.
  
  • a question arose

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Bob" wig`

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1. A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig. Spectator.

Webster 1913

• noun United States chemist honored for synthesizing complex organic compounds (1917-1979)
  Woodward; Robert Burns Woodward; Robert Woodward.
  

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Bob"-cher`ry noun

Definitions

1. A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.

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• noun United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946)
  Bartlett; Robert Abram Bartlett; Robert Bartlett.
  

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• the weight at the lower end of a pendulum.

Webster 1913

• noun the metal bob of a plumb line
  plummet; plumb.
  

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• . See Bob, 4.

Webster 1913

• to attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water.

Webster 1913