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Definition lob
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)
- To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.
- (colloquial) To throw.
- (colloquial) To put, place
- (sports) To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
- (obsolete, transitive) To let fall heavily or lazily.
Noun
lob (plural lobs)
- (ball sports) A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.
Etymology 2
From an Old English word for lumpish or unwieldy things, from Proto-Germanic *lubb? (“that which hangs or dangles”), from Proto-Indo-European *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)
- a lump
- (obsolete) a country bumpkin, clown
Etymology 3
Danish lubbe, from Old Norse lubba, ultimately from sense 2 in the sense of "clumsy, heavily or lumpily hanging."
Noun
lob (plural lobs)
- A fish, the European pollock.
Etymology 4
Verb
lob (third-person singular simple present lobs, present participle lobbing, simple past and past participle lobbed)
- (mining) To cob (chip off unwanted pieces of stone).
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