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abob

a. (context predicate English) Afloat; bouncing on the surface of a liquid. (First attested in the early 20th century.) adv. Afloat; bouncing on the surface of a liquid. (First attested in the early 20th century.)(R:SOED5: page=6)

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The musty auditorium was a dimly lit torture chamber, filled with the droning dull voice punctuated by the sharp screams of the electrified, the sea of nodding heads abob here and there with painfully leaping figures.

Then at last scraps of weed appeared to him, and then pieces of wood, abob in the water.

The next morning he had her up at daybreak to see a school of jellyfish, the shiny, throbbing bodies abob in blue water as far as the lens of a telescope would encompass.