lob
A pass or stroke which arcs high into the airA pass or stroke which arcs high into the air.
» He lobbed the ball into the box.
Meaning
10 sensesA pass or stroke which arcs high into the air.
The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.
Lob
свечаsveča
A lump.
(dialectal)A nugget (of gold); (hence), a quantity of money; a haul; booty.
A clumsy person.
The person who comes last in a race.
A lob-worm.
A fish, the European pollock.
A long bob haircut.
(obsolete)A country bumpkin; a yokel.
(UK, obsolete, slang)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.
- the act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc
- an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc
Examples
7 sentencesHe lobbed the ball into the box.
She lobbed the ball delicately over the defense.
He lobbed the ball over the onrushing goalkeeper.
She lobbed the ball into the penalty area.
Rather than passing, lobbing is the way to win.
Translations
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Origin
First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 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”).
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."
Blend of long + bob.
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