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Definition of Bob

Bob

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.

A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.

A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.

The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.

A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.

A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.

A working beam.

A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.

A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.

The refrain of a song.

A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.

A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.

A shilling.

To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.

To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.

To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.

To mock or delude; to cheat.

To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.

To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.

To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3.

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Bob Quotations

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.
Bob Marley

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
Bob Dylan

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.
Newt Gingrich

And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most.
Judi Dench

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.
Christopher Walken

Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
Kate Moss

But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.
Billy Bragg

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Ziggy Marley

I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.
Charlize Theron

We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal.
Phil Harris

He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad.
Phil Harris

I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.
Roger Daltrey

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.
Spike Lee

I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.
Nicolas Cage

Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.
Conan O'Brien

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.
Kin Hubbard

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
Dean Koontz

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.
Courtney Love

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.
Michael Stipe

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.
Steve Buscemi

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.
David Geffen

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.
Pete Rose

Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
Steve Earle

I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.
Robert T. Bakker

I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my face. Then it was off, short. The main reason it was long was because my mother cut it short when I was little and I was trying to make up for that.
Cathy Freeman

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.
Glenn Frey

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.
Sonny Bono

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.
Dick Van Dyke