Bob

  1. (acronym) .  (humorous) battery-operated boyfriend, that is, a vibrator.
  2. (acronym) .  (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.
  3. Proper noun.  (given name, male) .
  4. Proper noun.  In various fields such as cryptography and physics, a conventional name for the person or system that receives a message from another person or system conventionally known as Alice.
  5. 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.
  6. Verb.  (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
  7. Verb.  To curtsy.
  8. Noun.  A bobbing motion.
  9. Noun.  A bobber.
  10. Noun.  A curtsy.
  11. Noun.  A bob haircut.
  12. Noun.  The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
  13. Noun.  The docked tail of a horse.
  14. Noun.  A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
  15. Noun.  The short runner of a sled.
  16. Verb.  (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
  17. Verb.  (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
  18. Verb.  Short form of bobsleigh.
  19. Noun.  A shilling.
  20. Noun.  An unspecified amount of money.
  21. Noun.  (abbreviation of, shishkabob) .
  22. Noun.  (computer graphics) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.

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