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noun

• 1a style in which the hair is cut short and evenly all round so that it hangs above the shoulders: she wore her hair in a fashionable bob

• 2a weight on a pendulum, plumb line, or kite-tail.

• 3a bobsleigh.

• 4a short line at or towards the end of a stanza.

verb (bobs, bobbing, bobbed)

• 1 [with object] (usually as adjective bobbed) cut (someone’s hair) in a bob: she tied a headscarf over her bobbed brown hair

• 2 [no object] ride on a bobsleigh.