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say it: lahb
lob is a noun and verb meaning "an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc". It is pronounced /ˈlɑb/ — lahb. It carries 3 recorded senses.
an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc
the act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lob come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.