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What (who) is lob - definition
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Lob (disambiguation); Lobbing
lob
(lobs, lobbing, lobbed)
If you lob something, you throw it so that it goes quite high in the air.
Enemy forces lobbed a series of artillery shells onto the city...
A group of protesters gathered outside, chanting and lobbing firebombs.
VERB: V n prep/adv, V n
lob
¦ verb (lobs, lobbing, lobbed) throw or hit (a ball or missile) in a high arc.
?(in soccer or tennis) kick or hit the ball over (an opponent) in such a way.
¦ noun a ball lobbed over an opponent or a stroke producing this result.
?Cricket a ball bowled with a slow underarm action.
Origin
C16 (in the senses 'cause to hang heavily' and 'behave like a lout'): from the obs. noun lob 'lout, pendulous object', prob. from Low Ger. or Du.
lob
v. (D; tr.) to lob at (to lob a ball at smt.)
Examples of use of lob
1. It is particularly fruitful to lob them at Vanhanen.
2. "But what you cannot do in the 21st century is to lob about accusations of racism.
3. It‘s brazen politics, an obvious lob of red meat to the hungry of the Christian right.
4. He settled instantly, though, to win that game with the help of a minutely measured lob.
5. But he left it to congressional Democrats to lob the more incendiary criticism.