Crossword clues for bobby
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- Singer and conductor McFerrin
- Musician ____ Gimby ( AKAThePied Piper )
- London fuzz?
- London cop
- London beat pro
- Hockey's Orr
- Hockey legend Orr
- Game of the Century winner Fischer
- Ewing whose ex-wife dreamt an entire season of "Dallas"
- Cop (slang)
- Chess champion Fischer
- Canterbury cop
- British policeman or hockey's Orr
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bobby \Bob"by\, n.
A nickname for a British policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel,
who remodeled the police force. See Peeler. [Slang, Eng.]
--Dickens.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"London policeman," 1844, from Mr. (later Sir) Robert Peel (1788-1850), Home Secretary who introduced the Metropolitan Police Act (10 Geo IV, c.44) of 1829. Compare peeler.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (given name male diminutive=Robert). 2 (given name female diminutive=Roberta). n. 1 (given name male diminutive=Robert). 2 (given name female diminutive=Roberta).
WordNet
n. an informal term for a British policeman
Wikipedia
BOBBY may refer to:
- BOBBY (band), a cooperative musical project
- BOBBY (album), the debut studio album by the band of the same name
- BOBBY(Indian Film Writer) is a telugu film writer alternate name for Bobby Kolli, K.S.Ravindra, Kolli Santosh Ravindranath
Bobby is a 1973 Bollywood romantic film directed by Raj Kapoor. It was wildly popular and widely imitated. It was the film début for Dimple Kapadia and the first leading role for Raj Kapoor's son, Rishi Kapoor.
The movie is a trend-setter in its own right. It introduced in Bollywood the genre of teenage romance with a rich-vs-poor clash as a backdrop. Numerous movies in the following years were inspired by this plot.
Indiatimes Movies ranks Bobby amongst the 'Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films'. The film became a "blockbuster", was the top grossing hit of 1973, and became the second top grossing hit of the 1970s.
The original Bobby was a free online tool, written by Josh Krieger and provided by the Centre for Applied Special Technology (CAST) used to validate websites for WAI and Section 508 compliance. Launched in 1995, it became well known for the usage of the Bobby Approved icon that website authors could use to indicate they have successfully passed the Bobby online test.
The CAST tool was officially closed on May 1, 2005. However, the Bobby name lives on in Watchfire Corporation's Watchfire Bobby program. Watchfire provided the same free service that CAST did with Bobby in their Watchfire WebXACT tool. Watchfire's current offering, now part of an IBM suite described below, tests pages of web content for quality, accessibility and privacy issues.
The free tool was officially closed by the owners, IBM, on February 1, 2008. The software is now available as part of IBM's Rational Policy Tester Accessibility Edition.
Currently, the Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool (WAVE) provides this free service at wave.webaim.org.
Bobby is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Emilio Estevez, and starring an ensemble cast featuring Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Lindsay Lohan, Spencer Garrett, Anthony Hopkins, Ashton Kutcher, and Shia LaBeouf. The screenplay is a fictionalized account of the hours leading up to the June 5, 1968 shooting of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles following his win of the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primary in California.
Bobby is a 2002 Telugu film produced by K. Krishna Mohan Rao(brother of K. Raghavendra Rao and directed by Sobhan. The movie stars Mahesh Babu, Aarthi Agarwal, Raghuvaran, Ravi Babu, Brahmanandam, Meher Ramesh and Prakash Raj. Soundtrack of the movie was scored by Mani Sharma. The film released on 1 November 2002 and was a critical and commercial failure. Bobby was dubbed in Hindi as Daag - The Burning Fire. Shobu Yarlagadda of Arka Media Works was Executive producer for the movie
Bobby is a masculine and feminine hypocorism and given name. It is usually a variant of Robert (male) or Roberta (female)). The female version is also sometimes spelled "Bobbie".
"Bobby" is a diminutive of "Bob", itself a diminutive which most likely originated from the hypocorism Rob, short for Robert. Rhyming names were popular in the Middle Ages, so Richard became Rick, Hick, or Dick, William became Will or Bill, and Robert became Rob, Hob, Dob, Nob, or Bob.
BOBBY is a cooperative musical project based on the talents of musicians from Partisan Records and Knitting Factory Records which is notable for achieving an avant garde alternative sound using polyrhythm as well as achieving critical acclaim before releasing their first album entitled Bobby. They signed a contract with Partisan Records in 2010.
BOBBY is the debut studio album by the band of the same name, released in 2011 on Partisan Records. Consequence of Sound said of the album, "Its delicate balance between calm and eerie provides a nice escape from the drums, guitar, and bass formula, assuring that BOBBY’s atypical sound will reserve a place for the group among their peers at the synth-folk table for some time to come."
Bobby is the third studio album by American R&B singer Bobby Brown, released in 1992 by MCA Records.
The album continued the R&B/ new-jack sound of its successful predecessor, Don't Be Cruel. Babyface, L.A. Reid, and Daryl Simmons returned as songwriters and producers, however Brown also worked with new producers, most notably Teddy Riley, who was considered a pioneer of the new jack swing genre. Riley wrote and produced the majority of the album. Brown also had more creative input and control of the album, becoming an executive producer and co-writing seven of the album's thirteen tracks.
Bobby peaked at #2 on the US Billboard 200 album chart, and spawned two Top 10 Billboard Hot 100 singles: " Humpin' Around" (#3) and "Good Enough" (#7). The album also peaked at #1 on the Billboard R&B Albums chart and reached #2 in Australia.
The album included Brown's first duet with wife Whitney Houston on " Something in Common", which was also released as a single.
Bobby generally received mixed reviews from music critics. Brown received his second Grammy nomination for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 35th Annual Grammy Awards for "Humpin' Around".
The album has been certified 2x Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of over two million units in the United States.
Eamin Haque (known as Bobby), is a Bangladeshi film actress. She made her acting debut in Khoj: The Search, released on 16 April 2010. Dehorokkhi (2013) helped establish her as a star in the Dhallywood film industry. She is currently (as of December 2013) shooting the film Action Jasmine.
Kim Ji-won (; born December 21, 1995 in Seoul, South Korea), better known by his stage name Bobby , is a South Korean rapper and member of the boy group iKON, signed under YG Entertainment.
As a trainee, Bobby appeared as a member of "Team B" in the 2013 Mnet reality-survival programme WIN: Who Is Next. In 2014, he won the third season of Mnet's rap competition Show Me the Money, and became a member of iKON through the Mnet reality-survival programme Mix & Match, along with bandmates B.I, Jinhwan, Junhoe, Donghyuk, Yunhyeong, and Chanwoo.
Usage examples of "bobby".
Bobby was the NOAA observer for the Park, or at least making daily reports to the National Weather Service in Anchorage was his excuse to the IRS every time he bought a new receiver.
Bobby could smell sweat and hear the heavy biff and baff of gloves on flesh.
This according to Presidential Publicity Chairman Bobby Bolden, who issued the statement late yesterday from the summer White House in Barbados.
Like if a street bookie had a real heavy play on a horse or a football team, he could lay off some of his bets with Bobby.
If I expected to score by betting on fighters and football teams that had been doped with ZAP, I needed Bobby because he knew bookies all over , the country and could cobble up a giant swindle.
Bobby Bugget popped the top on the first beer of what he hoped would become a short and forgettable bender, he scanned the three familiar faces.
A bottle was brought to Bobby Bugget, while others began pouring water into the mouths of the unconscious.
Bobby Bugget took center stage, flanked by the kleptomaniac actress and the stock-fixing happy homemaker.
Bobby Bugget whirled around them worriedly as the two Masters of Sinanju swept past.
Remo had forced Bobby Bugget to haul from the warehouse were still arranged outside the loading dock.
Master of Sinanju cried as Bobby Bugget hopped up onto the windowsill.
And his doctors tinkered with parts of the caudate region, trying to ensure that Bobby did not suffer from symptoms relating to obsessive-compulsive disorder which led some people to a need for excessive security, order, predictability and ritual, a need in some circumstances satisfied by the membership of religious communities.
Krzyzewski had ended up at West Point playing for Bobby Knight, his first coaching mentor, he credited to his parents.
Bobby subsequently broke his right leg when he fell down while doing the twist, Zelda denied putting a curse on him, quoting the wiccan crede to do no harm.
Victoria and Irene, present by his instructions, had co-opted an unwilling Bobby Dazzler to protect them from the over-exuberant attentions of the Press.