Usually means: To unlawfully take property from.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. rob: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rob: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rob: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rob: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rob: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rob, rob: Wordnik
  7. rob: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Rob, rob: Wiktionary
  9. rob: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rob: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rob: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rob, rob: Dictionary.com
  13. rob: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rob: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. R.O.B, ROB, Rob (TV series), Rob (disambiguation), Rob (dog), Rob (given name), Rob: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rob: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rob: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rob: Rhymezone
  19. rob: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rob: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Rob: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. rob: Free Dictionary
  23. rob: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rob: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. rob: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  2. R.O.B. (disambiguation), rob: Legal dictionary
  3. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. R.O.B. (disambiguation), rob: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. ROB: Acronym Finder
  3. ROB: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. rob: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rob, rob: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. R.O.B, R.O.B, Rob, The Rob, rob-: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See robbed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence.
verb:  (transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively, used with "of") To deprive (of).
verb:  (transitive, slang) To burgle.
verb:  (transitive, UK, slang) To steal.
verb:  (intransitive) To commit robbery.
verb:  (sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
noun:  A syrup made of evaporating fruit juice over a fire, usually mixed with sugar or honey, and especially used for medicinal purposes.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
noun:  (rare compared to the pet form) A surname transferred from the given name, derived from Robert.
noun:  (photography) Region of background (in digital images).

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