Crossword clues for bobbing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bob \Bob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bobbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bobbing.] [OE. bobben. See Bob, n.]
To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob. ``He bobbed his head.''
--W. Irving.-
To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
If any man happened by long sitting to sleep . . . he was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants.
--Elyot. -
To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him.
--Shak. -
To mock or delude; to cheat.
To play her pranks, and bob the fool, The shrewish wife began.
--Turbervile. To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.
Wiktionary
n. The motion of something that bobs. vb. (present participle of bob English)
WordNet
n. a former monetary unit in Great Britain [syn: British shilling, shilling]
a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism [syn: bobsled, bobsleigh]
a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line [syn: bobber, cork, bobfloat]
a short or shortened tail of certain animals [syn: bobtail, dock]
a short abrupt inclination (as of the head); "he gave me a short bob of acknowledgement"
v. move up and down repeatedly; "her rucksack bobbed gently on her back"
ride a bobsled; "The boys bobbed down the hill screaming with pleasure" [syn: bobsled]
make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect; "She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand" [syn: curtsy]
cut hair in the style of a bob; "Bernice bobs her hair these days!"
See bob
Wikipedia
Bobbing can refer to multiple things:
- Bobbing, Kent
- Apple bobbing
- Bobbing (boxing) is used to dodge an opponent's punch
- John Erskine, 22nd Earl of Mar (1675–1732), Scottish Jacobite known as Bobbing John
- Docking, the practice of removing a portion of an animal's ears or tail.
Bobbing is one of the basic strategies of defensive boxing, executed by slightly moving the head to either side so that the opponent's punches slip by the boxer's head. You use the slip to evade swings, jabs, and straight punches. It can not be used with hooks as they move on the side level. Using slips is valid but risky with uppercuts since the punch is usually too close when the defender can determine the exact line of the punch. To overcome the hooks problem, the defender usually incorporate slipping (also called weaving) with ducking (also called bobbing)
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Usage examples of "bobbing".
Mina Gelmann wagged an admonitory finger in the direction of the bobbing blue ellipse.
The boat was just swinging up beside the amphibian plane bobbing gently around on the water.
Permanent Copula loping toward him, its twin heads and arms bobbing, one half of the creature serene, the other half straining to realize every pleasure Alien City had to offer.
He looked down upon the bobbing head, whose ministrations he began to feel ever more powerfully, and was taken by the heart shaped buttocks rising creamily behind it.
As Dex approached the bobbing life pod, he was startled to see giant prehistoric creatures swimming by.
A flock of dotterels bobbing, bowing, skipping, and shouldering one another may be merely practising some evolution with serious intent, though it is far more natural to conclude that the frail little birds are in holiday humour.
The water hyacinths formed an outer ring around the tattered shoreline, their bobbing heads a deeper purple than the water, their foliage the same deep green as the duckweed that grew between them, giving the appearance that the flowers grew on solid ground.
Taking advantage of this moment of inattention, Fent shouldered past them both with the box and trotted smartly down the path, his red head bobbing with suppressed energy.
They dived deeper, through a band of pressure and temperature where water rain fell, pattering hard against the skins of their whirling double discs, then on down, down into even wide-light darkness, down to the warm hydrogen slush where the discs floated like giant double-cone yo-yos, bobbing, steaming, flickering signals to each other.
I felt at seeing Gio, his blond head bobbing and ducking among the crowd of bullies we had duped, smiling at me as I left.
He handed her the keys and went jogging up the walk, bobbing and bowing in merry hostship to the occupants of the other units.
There were needle-thin submarines bobbing tethered between barquentines, and chariot ships filled with hotchi burrows.
Memnon was busy and crowded, but Reiver was as tall as he was skinny, and his kaffiyeh a twist of rags every color of the rainbow, so Amber and Hakiim could spot him bobbing amidst the market day crowd.
Their bobbing lightsticks caused sharp shadows to dance in all directions across the rock-littered terrain.
At the end of a long hawser, she passed again under Point Loma and continued westward to sea, bobbing high in the water as when she had first been launched, but now blind and comatose, bereft of sensors, crew and weapons, and thus no longer a ship, only a hull as she had been at Orange when I first saw her.