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