lob.
To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc.
Meaning & usage
To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc.
The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.
The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.
To throw.
To put, place.
Lob the bacon in the pot.
To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
To let fall heavily or lazily.
To reach or arrive at (a place).
Where this word comes from
First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.
A pass or stroke which arcs high into the air.
The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.
Where this word comes from
First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.
A country bumpkin; a yokel.
A lump.
A nugget (of gold); (hence), a quantity of money; a haul; booty.
A clumsy person.
The person who comes last in a race.
A lob-worm.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English lob (“a lazy lout, bundle of clothing”), from Old English *lobb, *lobbe word for lumpish or unwieldy things, from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ (“that which hangs or dangles”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lep- (“to peel, skin”). Compare Danish lobbes (“bumpkin, clown”), Old English loppe (“spider”) (in the sense of something that hangs or dangles). Possibly influenced or borrowed through Welsh llob (“lump”).
A fish, the European pollock.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English lob (“pollock”), cognate with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German lobbe (“a type of small plump or stocky fish, cod”), Danish lubbe, from Old Norse lubba, ultimately from sense 2 in the sense of "clumsy, heavily or lumpily hanging."
A long bob haircut.
Where this word comes from
Blend of long + bob.
A form of fraud in which a person asks for change in a shop, palms some of the coins, and tells the shopkeeper that he has not given them enough.
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