Etymology 2

Noun

1. A bob haircut.
2. The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
3. The docked tail of a horse.
4. A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
5. The short runner of a sled.

Verb

1. To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.

   I got my hair bobbed. How do you like it?

2. To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop
3. Short form of bobsleigh

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

1. A shilling.

   Beer’s gone up two bob a pint.

2. An unspecified amount of money.

   Spot me a few bob, Robert.

Derived terms

• bob-a-job
• bent as a nine bob note

Usage notes

The use of bob for shilling is dated slang in the UK and Australia, since decimalisation. In East African countries where the currency is the shilling, it is current usage, and not considered slang. OED gives first usage as 1812. TENTATIVE suggestion that on joining the army (colloquially 'taking the King's shilling') the new recruit's hair was bobbed

Etymology 4

Noun

1. abbreviation of shishkabob

Bosnian

Noun

1. broad bean
2. horse bean

Declension

Croatian

Noun

1. broad bean
2. horse bean

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From bob.

Noun

1. A type of bean.
2. Any seed, pit, stone, berry.

Serbian

Pronunciation

Noun

1. broad bean
2. horse bean

Declension

Welsh

Adjective

1. all, every, each

Mutation

cy-mut-p ob

Bob may refer to:

• A diminutive of Robert
• Bob (physics), the weight at the end of a pendulum
• BOB (band), a UK indie pop band
• "Bob" (song), a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic from Poodle Hat
• "Bob" (Red Hot Chili Peppers Song), a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from the album One Hot Minute
• J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, a figurehead of the satirical Church of the SubGenius
• Bob cut, a hairstyle
• Bob FM, a radio format in Canada and the U.S.
• Hurricane Bob, a 1991 hurricane
• Microsoft Bob, an unsuccessful software product
• A shilling
• Bob (TV series), a television comedy starring Bob Newhart
• Bob of Alice and Bob, placeholder characters in cryptography and physics problems
• Bob's Stores, Northeast retail chain store
• Bob's Big Boy, Fast food chain
• Bob's Discount Furniture Stores, Northeast furniture chain
• Bob (Cyrillic alphabet: боб) means "bean" in many Slavic languages. In this sense, "Bob" can refer to
  • Bob chorba, Bulgarian national dish
• Little Bob, a French English-singing rock band

Acronyms

• "B.O.B." (song), a song by Outkast
• Baby on Board
• Bank of Baroda, in India
• Band of Brothers, an acclaimed television miniseries
• Battle of Britain
• Battle of the Bands, a competition between multiple bands
• Bayerische Oberlandbahn, a private German railway
• Beast of Burden
• Bend over boyfriend
• Berlin Operating Base, the CIA station in Berlin during the Cold War
• Berner Oberland Bahn, a mountain railway in Switzerland
• Best of Breed, an award in dog shows and other settings
• Blitter object, a graphics construct
• Bob-omb, a character in the Nintendo Mario video games
• Breakout box, an electronics component
• Bug-out bag, an emergency kit
• Bora Bora Airport's IATA airport code
• 4-bromo-2,5,beta-trimethoxy-phenethylamine, a drug
• the ISO 4217 code for the Bolivian boliviano (currency)
• Bank One Ballpark, or Chase Field
• Basketball Owl Band at Rice University
• Body Opponent Bag, a punching bag shaped like a human head and torso
• BOB (Born on Board), the humans in the Marathon Trilogy
• BOB Battery Operated Boyfriend.

Fictional characters

• B.O.B., the titular character of the video game B.O.B.
• Bob the Tomato, one of the principal characters in VeggieTales.
• Bob (Twin Peaks), a villain on the television show Twin Peaks
• Bob (Blackadder character), the name of two characters in the television comedy Blackadder
• Bob (The Dresden Files), a character featured in the novels and TV show The Dresden Files
• Bob (First Comics), a "watchlizard" from the First Comics series GrimJack
• Bob the Builder
• Bob the Killer Goldfish, a character in the Earthworm Jim universe.
• Silent Bob, a character in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse
• Almighty Bob, a fictional deity in Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
• Bob, one of the human characters on Sesame Street
• Bob, a villain from the show Heroes.
• Bob, one of the main characters in ReBoot
• Bob, the Jagex cat in RuneScape
• Evil Bob, a random event in RuneScape
• Bob, a character in Bubble Bobble
• Bob, a character in Weebl and Bob
• Bob, a principal character in What About Bob?
• Bob, one of the two eponymous main characters of the sprite comic Bob and George
• Smilin' Bob, a character in commercials for Enzyte
• Bob Vorsh, a villain in the webcomic Jack (webcomic)
• SpongeBob Squarepants
• Sideshow Bob, Simpsons character
• Weebl and Bob cartoon
• Bob, Agent of HYDRA, comics character
• Bob, a lazy cat character that appears in Animal Crossing

People with the given name Bob

• Bob Backlund, American pro wrestler.
• Bob Barker, an American TV game show host
• Bob Bryan, a professional American tennis player.
• Bob Bryar, the current drummer for My Chemical Romance
• Bob Burnquist, professional skateboarder
• Bob Carolgees, British comedian and puppeteer
• Bob Carr, Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales
• Bob Caudle, American wrestling announcer
• Bob dela Cruz, a Filipino contestant in Pinoy Big Brother, Season 1
• Bob Clotworthy, American diver
• Bob Costas, Sports announcer
• Bob Dole, American politician
• Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter
• Bob Ezrin, Canadian musician and record producer
• Bob Feller, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher
• Bob Forward, screenwriter and film director
• Bob Geldof, former lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, organiser of Live Aid concerts
• Bob Gibson, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher
• Bob Hope, American comedian
• Bob Hoskins, British actor
• Bob Kempainen, American long-distance runner
• Bob Kerry, US senator
• Bob Marley, Jamaican musician
• Bob McGrath, American actor
• Bob McGrory, Scottish footballer
• Bob Monkhouse, British stand-up comedian and television presenter
• Bob Newhart, an American actor
• Bob Ross, American painter
• Bob Saget, American comedian
• Bob Sinclar, French DJ
• Bob Stupak, American entrepreneur, gambler and politician
• Bob Vila, TV home improvement host
• Bob Weir, rhythm guitarist of the Grateful Dead
• Bob Woodward, American journalist

See also

• Bobby
• Robert

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