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How to pronounce bob
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What does bob mean?
verbTo 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 flowers were bobbing in the wind.”
To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
“I bobbed my head underwater and saw the goldfish.”
To perform oral sex on someone.
“She bobbed on his knob.”
nounA bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
“a bob of the head”
A curtsy.
A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
“Or yellow bobs turn’d up before the plough / Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enough.”
adjBack-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
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