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lob

1

[ lob ]

verb (used with object)

, lobbed, lob·bing.
  1. Tennis. to hit (a ball) in a high arc to the back of the opponent's court.
  2. to fire (a missile, as a shell) in a high trajectory so that it drops onto a target.
  3. Cricket. to bowl (the ball) with a slow underhand motion.
  4. to throw (something) slowly in an arc.


verb (used without object)

, lobbed, lob·bing.
  1. Tennis. to lob a ball.

noun

  1. Tennis. a ball hit in a high arc to the back of the opponent's court.
  2. Cricket. a ball bowled with a slow underhand motion.
  3. British Dialect. a slow, heavy, dull-witted person.

lob

2

[ lob ]

noun

lob

1

/ lɒb /

noun

  1. short for lobworm
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


lob

2

/ lɒb /

noun

  1. a ball struck in a high arc
  2. cricket a ball bowled in a slow high arc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to hit or kick (a ball) in a high arc
  2. informal.
    to throw, esp in a high arc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lob1

1325–75; in earlier sense, to behave like a lob ( Middle English lobbe, lob bumpkin, clumsy person, originally pollack; Old English: spider; basic sense, something pendulous); cognate with Middle Low German, Middle Dutch lobbe dangling part, stockfish, etc.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lob1

C17 (in the sense: pendulous object): related to lob 1

Origin of lob2

C14: probably of Low German origin, originally in the sense: something dangling; compare Middle Low German lobbe hanging lower lip, Old English loppe spider
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Example Sentences

Staring at a midterm catastrophe, the Democrats lob increasingly desperate charges.

The lob may have a long history, but it's also having a moment.

Walters took the opportunity to lob some off-the-cuff softball questions.

And, I lay low on holidays since the bad guys tend to lob rockets to help us celebrate.

That would make the $40 million in salaries owed each year to the Lob City Duo enough to put the Clippers deep into the red.

After rain, when rivers or brooks are somewhat beyond their usual bounds, a well scoured lob worm will take the best of fish.

I have experienced many sandstorms in Takla-makan and the Lob-nor desert, but hardly any so bad as this was.

I had heard in the Lob country similar tales of the sorrow of the swans when their union was dissolved by death.

Kolwah is a well-cultivated district lying to the south of the river, which in its upper course is known as the Lob.

Once in his match against Bill Johnston he was within a point of set and down from the sky a high short lob was descending.

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