to bob
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2.7
- verb
- /bɑb/
:
moverse arriba y abajo
- Over his shoulder, Provincetown harbor is choppy, the moored boats dancing and bobbing in the afternoon light.
- bob up and down
Snow floats on the downy nape, wings bobbing gently in the ebbing water.
- Snow floats on the downy nape, wings bobbing gently in the ebbing water.
- So I always say go in with an open heart, going with an open mind, be willing to Bob and weave a little bit off of your plan.
- The other boat who had gone ahead broke down in the Gulf of Fonseca, still in Nicaraguan waters, like a bobbing cork up there.
- Like he's not far from it, but he is, his head is sort of bobbing up and it's terrifying.
- Oh, those nuggies just swimming around, swimming around in the sauce and I'm bobbing for nuggies.
- For example, you when, when you teach boxers how to Bob, usually it's not done in the way that I, I believe it, it should be done.
Examples
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But you can extend that by bobbing your head to the beat.
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I'm in the middle of the pure ocean, bobbing like a navel on the sea's roundness.
Fiction book (1994) -
So here you just, you know, bobbed up and down.
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Yo, yo, did you see him bobbing his head?
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Well, stop bobbing up and down, girl.
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I'm telling you, man, bobbing up and down in the water.
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Yesterday their heads were bobbing everywhere.
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The deaf man giggled in the living room, his head bobbing up and down.
Fiction book (1991) -
One of the hens has escaped the crate and is bobbing up and down in the waves.
Fiction book (1993) -
During the concert, everyone was bobbing up and down to the rhythm of the music.
Synonyms
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3.2
To move something in short, quick shaking movements
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3.7
To move up and down quickly and lightly many times
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3.9
Move up and down gently while floating in water or air
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6.1
Move up and down lightly on water, like small boats
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8.9
To move quickly by bouncing often making a spring sound
To move something lightly and repeatedly so it shakes
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Etymology
Bob (verb, move up and down) is a simple word that means 'to move up and down quickly', and it comes from an old word that copies that short motion. That is why things like boats or floats are said to bob on the water.