Usually means: Short, quick movement up, down.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. bob: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Bob, bob, bob, bob, bob: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bob, bob, bob: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bob: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bob: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bob, Bob, bob, bOb: Wordnik
  7. Bob, bob: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bob, bob: Wiktionary
  9. bob: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bob: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. BOB: Dictionary.com
  12. bob (1), bob (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. bob: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. B.O.B, B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad), B.O.B. (game), B.O.B. (song), B.O.B. (video game), B.O.B (song), BOB (band), BOB (psychedelic), B.o.B, Bob (Blackadder), Bob (Blackadder character), Bob (TV series), Bob (Tekken), Bob (The Dresden Files), Bob (Twin Peaks), Bob (Weird Al Yankovic song), Bob (band), Bob (disambiguation), Bob (dog), Bob (given name), Bob (hairstyle), Bob (name), Bob (nickname), Bob (personal name), Bob (physics), Bob (song), Bob (surname), Bob, The Bob (Medley): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Bob: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. bob: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. bob: Rhymezone
  18. bob: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. bob: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. BOB: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. BOB, bob: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Bob: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. bob: Free Dictionary
  24. bob: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. bob: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. bob: Infoplease Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. BOB: bizterms.net
  4. BOB: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Glossary of Crop Abbreviations (No longer online)
  6. BOB: Investopedia
  7. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  8. BOB, Bob (disambiguation): Financial dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bob: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. BOB: Netlingo
  3. BoB: CCI Computer
  4. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  5. Bob (disambiguation), bob: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. bob: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. BOB: Acronym Finder
  3. BOB: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. bob: Idioms
  6. bob: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BOB: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. bob, bob, bob, bob, bob, bob, bob, bob, bob, bob, bob, Bob, Bob: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Bob (Hope), bob: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. bob: The Folk File
  4. B.O.B, B.Ob, Bob, The Bob: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BOB: Glossary of Terms Used in Showing Rabbits
  2. Bob: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See bobbed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (intransitive) 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, or similar medium.
verb:  (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
verb:  To curtsy.
verb:  To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
verb:  (intransitive) Synonym of blob (“catch eels using worms strung on thread”)
noun:  A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
noun:  A curtsy.
noun:  A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
noun:  Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
noun:  A bob haircut.
noun:  Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
noun:  The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
noun:  The docked tail of a horse.
noun:  A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
noun:  The short runner of a sled.
noun:  A bobsleigh.
noun:  A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
noun:  A working beam in a steam engine.
noun:  A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
noun:  A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
noun:  (obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
noun:  (obsolete) The refrain of a song.
noun:  (obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
verb:  (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
verb:  (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
verb:  To bobsleigh.
noun:  (Kenya, slang; UK and Australia, historical, dated) A shilling.
noun:  (Australia, dated slang) A 10-cent coin.
noun:  (slang) An unspecified amount of money.
noun:  (computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
noun:  (humorous) Vibrator (device designed to stimulate a woman's genitals).
adjective:  (philately) Back-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 these two groups varies with the publisher.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
noun:  (cryptography, physics) The person or system receiving a message or signal from a source conventionally known as Alice.
noun:  A generic male person.
noun:  Abbreviation of shishkabob.
noun:  Acronym of bur oak blight (“a fungal disease of plants”). [A disease of the bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) caused by a Tubakia fungus.]

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