bob

1. 1.

   move up and down repeatedly

   “her rucksack bobbed gently on her back”

   Broadermove

   Narrowerdabblebob around
2. 2.

   ride a bobsled

   “The boys bobbed down the hill screaming with pleasure”

   Synonymsbobsled

   Broadersled

   sport

3. 3.

   remove or shorten the tail of an animal

   Synonymsdocktail

   Broadercut
4. 4.

   make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect

   “She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand”

   Synonymscurtsy

   Broadergreet
5. 5.

   cut hair in the style of a bob

   “Bernice bobs her hair these days!”

   Broaderdress

Other forms of bob

plural

bobs·

past tense or participle

bobbed

present participle

bobbing

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bob

What does bob mean?

bob means "a former monetary unit in Great Britain". That is the primary sense; the word has 12 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bob?

bob has 1 syllable: bob. In IPA it is /ˈbɑb/.

What is another word for bob?

Close synonyms include British shilling, shilling, bobsled, bobsleigh, bobber. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bob a common word?

bob is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bob?

2 words rhyme with bob. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.