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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bob \Bob\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bobbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bobbing}.] [OE. bobben. See {Bob}, noun]
1. To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob. ''He bobbed his head.'' --W. Irving.
2. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
If any man happened by long sitting to sleep . . . he was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants. --Elyot.
3. To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him. --Shak.
4. To mock or delude; to cheat.
To play her pranks, and bob the fool, The shrewish wife began. --Turbervile.
5. To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bob \Bob\ (b[o^]b), noun [An onomatopoetic word, expressing quick, jerky motion; OE. bob bunch, bobben to strike, mock, deceive. Cf. Prov. Eng. bob, noun, a ball, an engine beam, bunch, blast, trick, taunt, scoff; as, a v., to dance, to courtesy, to disappoint, OF. bober to mock.]
1. Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail.
In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob. --Dryden.
2. A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
Or yellow bobs, turned up before the plow, Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow. --Lauson.
3. A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
4. The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.
5. A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
6. A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.
7. (Steam Engine) A working beam.
8. A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
A plain brown bob he wore. --Shenstone.
9. A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.
10. The refrain of a song.
To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song. --L'Estrange.
11. A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
12. A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
He that a fool doth very wisely hit, Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob. --Shak.
13. A shilling. [Slang, Eng.] --Dickens.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bob \Bob\, verb (used without an object)
1. To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything. ''Bobbing and courtesying.'' --Thackeray.
2. To angle with a bob. See {Bob}, noun, 2 & 3.
He ne'er had learned the art to bob For anything but eels. --Saxe.
{To bob at an apple}, {cherry}, etc. to attempt to bite or seize with the mouth an apple, cherry, or other round fruit, while it is swinging from a string or floating in a tug of water. ||
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bob
noun
1: a former monetary unit in Great Britain [syn: {British shilling}, {shilling}]
2: a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
3: a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism [syn: {bobsled}, {bobsleigh}]
4: a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
5: a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line [syn: {bobber}, {cork}, {bobfloat}]
6: a short or shortened tail of certain animals [syn: {bobtail}, {dock}]
7: a short abrupt inclination (as of the head); "he gave me a short bob of acknowledgement"
verb
1: move up and down repeatedly; "her rucksack bobbed gently on her back"
2: ride a bobsled; "The boys bobbed down the hill screaming with pleasure" [syn: {bobsled}]
3: remove or shorten the tail of an animal [syn: {dock}, {tail}]
4: make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect; "She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand" [syn: {curtsy}]
5: cut hair in the style of a bob; "Bernice bobs her hair these days!" [also: {bobbing}, {bobbed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
327 Moby Thesaurus words for "bob": Carling float, T square, abbreviate, abridge, abscind, abstract, accost, address, amputate, angle, annihilate, bait the hook, balsa, balsa raft, ban, bar, barber, bawbee, bend, bend the knee, bend the neck, bending the knee, bis, bob a curtsy, bob down, bobble, boil down, boom, bounce, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow the head, bowing and scraping, bump, buoy, burden, caper, capriole, capsulize, caracole, careen, cavort, chant, chatter, chorus, clam, clip, coggle, coif, coiffure, compress, condense, conk, contract, cork, crop, crouch, crown, cull, curtail, curtsy, curvet, cut, cut a dido, cut away, cut back, cut capers, cut down, cut off, cut off short, cut out, cut short, dangle, dap, dib, dibble, didder, dipping the colors, dither, ditto, dock, dollar, drive, duck, elide, eliminate, embrace, enucleate, epitomize, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, extinguish, extirpate, fall down before, falter, farthing, fish, fiver, flick, flip, flirt, float, florin, flounce, fluctuate, flutter, fly-fish, foreshorten, fourpence, fourpenny, frisk, gambado, gambol, genuflect, genuflection, gig, go fishing, greeting, grig, grimace, groat, guddle, guinea, hail, half crown, half dollar, halfpenny, hand-clasp, handshake, have an ague, hello, hitch, homage, how-do-you-do, hug, hustle, inclination, isolate, jack, jacklight, jactitate, jar, jerk, jig, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump, jump about, kiss, kneel, kneeling, knock, knock off, kowtow, lead, librate, life buoy, life preserver, life raft, lop, lurch, mag, make a leg, make a reverence, make obeisance, making a leg, meg, mite, monkey, mow, mutilate, net, new pence, nip, nod, np, nutate, obeisance, obsequiousness, oscillate, p, pare, peel, pence, pendulate, penny, pick out, pitch, pluck, plumb, plumb bob, plumb line, plumb rule, plummet, poll, pollard, pompadour, pontoon, pony, pound, prance, presenting arms, process, prostration, prune, quake, quaver, quid, quiver, raft, ramp, rap, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, reel, refrain, repeat, repetend, resonate, retrench, reverence, rictus, ritornello, rock, roll, romp, root out, rule out, salaam, salutation, salute, sandbag, scrape, seine, servility, set apart, set aside, set square, shake, shave, shear, shilling, shingle, shiver, shock, shorten, shrimp, shudder, sinker, sixpence, skip, smile, smile of recognition, snatch, snub, spin, square, squat, stamp out, standing at attention, start, still-fish, stoop, strike off, strip, strip off, stunt, submission, submissiveness, sudden pull, sum up, summarize, supination, surfboard, swag, sway, swing, synopsize, take in, take off, take out, telescope, tenner, threepence, threepenny bit, thrippence, tic, torch, toss, trawl, tremble, tremor, trim, trip, troll, truncate, try square, tunk, tuppence, tweak, twitch, twitter, twopence, undersong, vacillate, vibrate, wag, waggle, wave, waver, weight, whale, wipe out, wobble, wrench, yank, yerk
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
bob n. At Demon Internet (http://www.demon.net/), all tech support personnel are called "Bob". (Female support personnel have an option on "Bobette"). This has nothing to do with Bob the divine drilling-equipment salesman of the {Church of the SubGenius}. Nor is it acronymized from "Brother Of {BOFH}", though all parties agree it could have been. Rather, it was triggered by an unusually large draft of new tech-support people in 1995. It was observed that there would be much duplication of names. To ease the confusion, it was decided that all support techs would henceforth be known as "Bob", and identity badges were created labelled "Bob 1" and "Bob 2". ("No, we never got any further" reports a witness).
The reason for "Bob" rather than anything else is due to a {luser} calling and asking to speak to "Bob", despite the fact that no "Bob" was currently working for Tech Support. Since we all know "the customer is always right", it was decided that there had to be at least one "Bob" on duty at all times, just in case.
This sillyness inexorably snowballed. Shift leaders and managers began to refer to their groups of "bobs". Whole ranks of support machines were set up (and still exist in the DNS as of 1999) as bob1 through bobN. Then came alt.tech-support.recovery, and it was filled with Demon support personnel. They all referred to themselves, and to others, as 'bob', and after a while it caught on.There is now a Bob Code (http://bob.bob.bofh.org/~giolla/bobcode.html) describing the Bob nature.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Bob David Betz. A tiny object-oriented language. {(ftp://ftp.mv.com/pub/ddj/packages/bob15.arc)}. [Dr Dobbs J, Sep 1991, p.26].
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