bob about

1. 1.

   move up and down with no specific path

   “the cork bobbed around in the pool”

   Synonymsbob around

   Broaderbob

Questions about bob about

What does bob about mean?

bob about means "move up and down with no specific path".

What is another word for bob about?

Close synonyms include bob around. 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 about a common word?

bob about is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.