bob

[[t]bɒ̱b[/t]]

bobs, bobbing, bobbed

(The plural form for meaning 4 is bob.)

1) VERB If something bobs, it moves up and down, like something does when it is floating on water.

[V prep/adv] Huge balloons bobbed about in the sky above...

[V prep/adv] The raft bobbed along more quietly.

2) VERB If you bob somewhere, you move there quickly so that you disappear from view or come into view.

[V adv/prep] She handed over a form, then bobbed down again behind a typewriter.

3) VERB When you bob your head, you move it quickly up and down once, for example when you greet someone.

[V n] A hostess stood at the top of the steps and bobbed her head at each passenger.

Syn:

nod

N-COUNT

Bob is also a noun.

The young man smiled with a bob of his head.

4) N-COUNT In Britain, people used to refer to a shilling as a bob. [INFORMAL]

I've only got ten bob on me.

5) N-COUNT A bob is a fairly short hair style in which the hair is the same length all the way round, except for the front.

6) PHRASE Bits and bobs are small objects or parts of something. [mainly BRIT, INFORMAL]

The microscope contains a few hundred dollars-worth of electronic bits and bobs.

Syn:

bits and pieces