Bob

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To hit lightly and quickly; tap.
  • v. To cause to move up and down: bobbed my head in response to the question.
  • verb-intransitive. To move up and down: a cork bobbing on the water.
  • verb-intransitive. To grab at floating or hanging objects with the teeth: bobbed for apples.
  • verb-intransitive. To curtsy or bow.
  • n. A tap or light blow.
  • n. A quick, jerky movement of the head or body.
  • phrasal-verb. bob up To appear or arise unexpectedly or suddenly.
  • n. A small, knoblike pendent object, such as a plumb bob.
  • n. A fishing float or cork.
  • n. A small lock or curl of hair.
  • n. A woman's or child's short haircut.
  • n. Informal Surgical shortening or reshaping of the nose.
  • n. The docked tail of a horse.
  • n. A bobsled.
  • n. A bob skate.
  • verb-intransitive. To fish with a bob.
  • v. To cut short or reshape: bobbed her hair; had his nose bobbed.
  • n. Chiefly British A shilling.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. 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.
  • v. To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
  • v. To curtsy.
  • n. A bobbing motion.
  • n. A bobber.
  • n. A curtsy.
  • n. A bob haircut.
  • n. Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it
  • n. The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
  • n. The docked tail of a horse.
  • n. A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
  • n. The short runner of a sled.
  • v. To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
  • v. To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop
  • v. Short form of bobsleigh
  • n. A shilling.
  • n. A 10-cent coin.
  • n. An unspecified amount of money.
  • n. Abbreviation of shishkabob.
  • n. A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
  • Word Usage
    "She kept refering to me as “Hacker Bob” So, in the spirit of fun I started with roberthacker bob then just hacker bob."
    Equivalent
    cherry   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    arrange    coiffe    dress    set    do    coiffure    coif    float    sleigh    sledge   
    Variant
    bobbing    bobbed   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pendant    float    blow    trick    shilling    tap    cheat    filch    jerk    dock   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cobb    Job    Punjab    Rob    blob    cob    cobb    dob    glob    gob   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ponytail    haircut    pageboy