to lob
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3.5
- verb
- /lɑb/
:
lanzar en globo
- The quarterback lobbed the football toward his teammate, who caught it with ease.
They can be smooth, but when they are, they tend to lob their bullets, not fire them.
- They can be smooth, but when they are, they tend to lob their bullets, not fire them.
- You know, we, we both read the news and we saw what happened when Iran lobbed missiles, including ballistic missiles at Israel and they were intercepted, right?
- If someone is, if someone lobs a hand grenade at you, can you shoot said hand grenade out of the air?
- Fast forward, he's on the Thames lobbing abuse at Nigel Farage about the EU.
- But I think that patients are really going to have to lob the first volley here.
Examples
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- Lob it!
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He skillfully lobbed the ball over the defenders and into the net.
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Take a lot of elevation to lob them that far.
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You lob it so it looks like a curveball... ...but you give it no power...
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"Give me that," he said, and I lobbed it to him.
Fiction book (1996) -
-Acker lobs the ball high into left field.
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Come on, lob it!
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Then grabs an interactive CD on his tabletop and lobs it at Alfred like a frisbee.
Fiction book (1992) -
She beats one, nutmegs another, lobs it neatly over the big fullback.
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During practice, she lobs the tennis ball high into the air to work on her serve.
Synonyms
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1.0
To send something through the air by a quick movement of the arm
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1.3
To try to score by sending a ball toward the goal
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3.9
To throw something with force or without care
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4.8
To hit or throw something high into the air
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7.4
To hit something very high into the air in a sport
To throw the ball quickly and casually
Phrasal Verbs
How High
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb lob likely comes from the same old word for a 'lump', giving the picture of tossing something heavy up in a curve. So to lob something is to throw or hit it in a high, curving path over someone or something.