1. a short, jerky motion: a bob of the head.

2. to move quickly down and up: to bob the head.
3. to indicate with such a motion: to bob a greeting.

4. to make a jerky motion with the head or body.
5. to move about with jerky, usually rising and falling motions: The ball bobbed upon the waves.

6. to emerge or appear, especially unexpectedly: A familiar face bobbed up in the crowd.

1. a style of short haircut for women and children.
2. a docked horse's tail.
3. a dangling or terminal object, as the weight on a pendulum or a plumb line.
4. a short, simple line in a verse or song, especially a short refrain or coda.
5. Angling.
• a knot of worms, rags, etc., on a string.
• a float for a fishing line.
6. a bobsled or bob skate.
7. a bunch, cluster, or wad, especially a small bouquet of flowers.
8. walking beam.

9. to cut short; dock: They bobbed their hair to be in style.

10. to try to snatch floating or dangling objects with the teeth: to bob for apples.
11. to fish with a bob.

1. a tap; light blow.
2. a polishing wheel of leather, felt, or the like.

3. to tap; strike lightly.

1. a shilling.

1. a male given name, form of Robert.

1. to move or cause to move up and down repeatedly, as while floating in water
2. to move or cause to move with a short abrupt movement, as of the head
3. to make (a bow or curtsy)
4. to appear or emerge suddenly
5. to disappear suddenly, as beneath a surface
6. to attempt to get hold (of a floating or hanging object, esp an apple) in the teeth as a game

7. a short abrupt movement, as of the head
8. a quick curtsy or bow
9. a particular set of changes
10. angling
• short for bobfloat
• the topmost fly on a cast of three, often fished bobbing at the surface
• this position on a wet-fly cast

1. a hairstyle for women and children in which the hair is cut short evenly all round the head
2. a dangling or hanging object, such as the weight on a pendulum or on a plumb line
3. a polishing disc on a rotating spindle. It is usually made of felt, leather, etc, impregnated with an abrasive material
4. short for bob skate, bobsleigh
5. a runner or pair of runners on a bobsled
6. a small knot of worms, maggots, etc, used as bait
7. a very short line of verse at the end of a stanza or preceding a rhyming quatrain (the wheel) at the end of a stanza
8. a refrain or burden with such a short line or lines
9. a docked tail, esp of a horse
10. a hanging cluster, as of flowers or ribbons

11. to cut (the hair) in a bob
12. to cut short (something, esp the tail of an animal); dock or crop
13. to ride on a bobsled

1. to tap or cause to tap or knock lightly (against)

2. a light knock; tap

1. British (formerly) an informal word for a shilling (def. 1)

1. everything is or will turn out all right

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