(bobs, bobbing, bobbed)
1.
If something bobs, it moves up and down, like something does when it is floating on water.
Huge balloons bobbed about in the sky above...
VERB: V prep/adv
2.
If you bob somewhere, you move there quickly so that you disappear from view or come into view.
She handed over a form, then bobbed down again behind a typewriter.
VERB: V adv/prep
3.
When you bob your head, you move it quickly up and down once, for example when you greet someone.
A hostess stood at the top of the steps and bobbed her head at each passenger.
= nod
VERB: V n
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Bob is also a noun.
The young man smiled with a bob of his head.
= nod
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4.
A bob is a fairly short hair style for women in which the hair is the same length all the way round, except for the front.
N-COUNT
5.
Bits and bobs are small objects or parts of something. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL)
The microscope contains a few hundred dollars-worth of electronic bits and bobs.
PHRASE