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lob

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "lob"

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.

Verb

lob (third-person singular simple present lobs, present participle lobbing, simple past and past participle lobbed)

  1. (transitive) To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc.
    The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.
    The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.
  2. (transitive, colloquial) To throw.
    Synonyms: fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw
    • 2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera‎, Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 6 April 2019:
      In the months leading up to the election, government representatives took up a cybercrime case against Thanathorn for criticising the government on a Facebook Live video... They also lobbed more legal cases at his party for allegedly spreading false information.
    • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
      I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.
  3. (transitive, colloquial) To put, place.
    Synonyms: lay, lay down, put down, set down, deposit
    Lob the bacon in the pot.
  4. (transitive, sports) To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
    • 2011 January 15, Nabil Hassan, “Wigan 1 - 1 Fulham”, in BBC‎:
      Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To let fall heavily or lazily.
  6. (Australia, intransitive, informal) To reach or arrive at (a place).
    • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 204:
      So with great trepidation we lobbed at the theatre and were escorted to our seats[.]
Translations

Noun

lob (plural lobs)

  2. (ball games) A pass or stroke which arcs high into the air.
    The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.
    • 2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC‎:
      Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English lob (“a lazy lout, bundle of clothing”), from Old English *lobb, *lobbe word for lumpish or unwieldy things, from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ (“that which hangs or dangles”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lep- (“to peel, skin”). Compare Danish lobbes (“bumpkin, clown”), Old English loppe (“spider”) (in the sense of something that hangs or dangles). Possibly influenced or borrowed through Welsh llob (“lump”).

Noun

lob (plural lobs)

  1. A lump.
    • 1875, M.L. Kenny, The fortunes of Maurice Cronin‎, page 126:
      And, moreover, I had no sooner set my eyes on the keys, than I remembered where there was a lob of money lying in Purcell's safe, that I —
  2. (obsolete) A country bumpkin; a yokel.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:country bumpkin
  3. A clumsy person.
  4. The person who comes last in a race.
  5. A lob-worm.
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Etymology 3

From Middle English lob (“pollock”), cognate with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German lobbe (“a type of small plump or stocky fish, cod”), Danish lubbe, from Old Norse lubba, ultimately from sense 2 in the sense of "clumsy, heavily or lumpily hanging."

Noun

lob (plural lobs)

  1. A fish, the European pollock.

Etymology 4

Blend of long +‎ bob.

Noun

lob (plural lobs)

  1. A long bob haircut.

Etymology 5

Noun

the lob

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A form of fraud in which a person asks for change in a shop, palms some of the coins, and tells the shopkeeper that he has not given them enough.
    • 1703, Hell Upon Earth, page 4:
      Some are acute for the Lob; which is, going into a Shop to have a Guinea or Pistole chang'd, and the Change being given, the bringer of the Gold telling it over, Palms Two or Three Shillings, then returning the Money, says there wants so much, which the Shop-keeper telling over again, and finding short, very innocently crys 'tis true, and makes up the Summ.

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References

  • Nall, John Greaves (2006): Nall's Glossary of East Anglian Dialect

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós).

Noun

lob f or m (plural lobben, diminutive lobbetje n)

  1. lobe, lobule
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English lob.

Noun

lob m (plural lobs, diminutive lobje n)

  1. lob (arcing pass of a ball)
    Synonym: boogbal

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lob

  1. inflection of lobben:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative
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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English lob.

Pronunciation

Noun

lob m (plural lobs)

  1. (tennis) lob

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