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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Obie

one of the annual awards given to off-Broadway theater, 1967, from O.B. as the abbreviation of Off-Broadway.

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Obie (disambiguation)

Obie usually refers to an Obie Award, an off-Broadway theater award.

Obie may also refer to:

People:

  • William Obadiah Obie Baizley (1917-2000), Canadian politician
  • Renaldo Benson (1936-2005), singer with the Four Tops nicknamed "Obie"
  • Obie Bermúdez (born 1980), pop singer and composer
  • Jessie Obie Bristow (1900-1969), American early National Football League player
  • Obie Etie Ikechukwu (born 1987), Nigerian footballer
  • Obie Fernandez (born 1974), leading member of the Ruby on Rails community
  • Obie Graves, college football and Canadian Football League (1980-1982) player
  • Obediah Donnell "Obie" Jessie (born 1936), stage name Young Jessie, African American R&B and jazz singer
  • Petrus Obie Oberholzer (born 1947), South African photographer
  • Obie Patterson (born 1938), American politician
  • Obie Trice (born 1977), U.S. rapper
  • Obadiah Obie Trotter (born 1984), U.S. basketball player
  • Obie Scott Wade, American producer, director and screenwriter
  • Obie Walker (1911-1989), American boxer, World Colored Heavyweight Champion from 1933 to 1935
  • Obelit Yadgar (born 1945), aka Obie Yadgar, Assyrian-American radio personality
  • Bob O'Billovich (born 1940), "Obie", a former coach in the Canadian Football League
  • William Obanhein (1924-1994), former chief of police for the town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Officer Obie in Arlo Guthrie's song "Alice's Restaurant"

Other uses:

  • A colloquialism for an Oberlin College student
  • Obie, a light designed to be placed on a movie camera, named after Merle Oberon, invented by Lucien Ballard

Usage examples of "obie".

The roustabouts cut long, woody branches on the left side of the road and Ray, Obie, and Shellabarger slipped them under the rear tires.

The most sophisticated computer complex known save one, Obie often behaved like a child crying in the night.

Dreel on Parkatin, Obie had double-crossed Antor Trelig at his demonstration on New Pompeii.

Long ago, when they had first come here, Obie had contacted the master computer and then found himself unable to disconnect.

Any of us can assume any form Obie knows or can imagine, with any powers or abilities we think we need.

You see, when Obie felt that disruption in space-time, we first checked on the Well World to see if the master computer was damaged.

The rally had been well publicized, and Obie has been monitoring all communications channels.

Now Obie selected his starting point and the scene went into playback.

For the first time they saw that the six-armed walrus-snake, among others, was pointing a weapon at the creature Obie called Nathan Brazil.

Chang, disguised as a Pallas, along with Yua made subservient to her by Obie, approached Olympus in an Olympian ship after transferring from a commercial freighter.

Mavra and Obie found this attitude curious, but they reserved judgment.

There was a puzzle here, one she wanted to solveand which Obie was also curious aboutbut perhaps the answer would be found in the Mother Temple.

Nikki had been grabbed by Obie and cared for by him in the minor control room.

You know the power of Obie, you know that he could do this, know why I can still be alive and much as I was then.

It is more than likely, then, that Obie is still doing the bidding of the Evil One, for, as a machine, he has no choice.