lob
10
4.4
- noun
- /lɑb/
:
globo
- During the tennis match, she executed a perfect lob that soared over her opponent's head.
- lob wedge
- lob shot
- lob pass
Examples
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Tyshawn Taylor could do things with the ball and off the lob that Brady could never do.
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It's an extremely high lob.
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What, you never seen anybody lob a ball before?
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One jump shot even became a lob pass and resulted in an assist.
Fiction book (1990) -
Lobs are an important part of the game.
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Despite overall youth, LCCC hoopsters have the lob down to a science.
Blog text (19) -
It's a lob pitch.
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Instead, he dropped back into no-man's land and threw a slow lob pass to Okafor that was nearly intercepted.
Blog text (27) -
I'm hitting lobs, and you're smashing them back at me.
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On the next play, LCCC's Deshon Portley hit a lob pass to Germain Decoste for an alley-oop dunk.
Blog text (19)
Synonyms
145
1.0
An act of sending something through the air, or one chance in a game
50
5.4
A ball hit high into the air in baseball
16
3.1
A ball hit high into the air in baseball
How Difficult
- Jargon
- Specialized
1
4.6
10
4.4
- Specialized
1
4.2
4
3.2
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lob may come from an old word that meant 'lump' or a clumsy person, so imagine throwing a heavy lump in a high curve through the air. That's why a lob is a high, curving throw or the ball sent that way.