Crossword clues for rob
rob
- Laura's sitcom hubby
- Laura Petrie's TV hubby
- Knock over, in the worst way
- Judas Priest singer ___ Halford
- Gronkowski of the Patriots
- Former "The Daily Show" correspondent Corddry
- Emmy winner Reiner
- Do some pirating
- Comedian Riggle
- Big Dick part
- A Reiner
- "Parks and Recreation" actor Lowe
- Zombie of heavy metal
- What Sublime will do to the "Hood"?
- What burglars do
- Way overcharge, so to speak
- Unfairly deprive
- Take in a bad way?
- Take illicitly
- Take from illegally
- Steal with force
- Snatch a victory from
- Skid Row drummer Affuso
- Seriously shortchange
- Scottish outlaw, ... Roy
- Scottish folk hero Roy
- Scotland's Roy
- Schneider or Lowe
- Roy of a film title
- Roy at the bar
- Reiner, Roy or Schneider
- Reiner or Petri
- Reiner or Lowe
- Reality show contestant Mariano
- Pro skateboarder Dyrdek or Patriots tight end Gronkowski
- Prey on successfully
- Pick a pocket
- Overcharge ridiculously
- Old school rapper Base
- Not take well
- New England Patriots tight end Gronkowski
- Musician-director Zombie
- Mug for the camera, perhaps
- Morrow of "Numb3rs"
- MLB commissioner Manfred
- Mimic a mugger
- Matchbox 20's Thomas
- Mary's TV hubby
- Make a great fielding play on
- Lowe who stars with his sons in the A&E reality series "The Lowe Files"
- Lowe of TV and films
- Lowe of 'Breakaway'
- Los Angeles Kings captain Blake
- Laura's TV hubby
- Laura's hubby on "The Dick van Dyke Show"
- Laura Petrie's husband, played by Dick Van Dyke on his self-titled sitcom
- Laura Petrie's husband
- Laura Petrie's hubby
- Knock over, in a way
- Knock over, as a bank
- Knock over illegally?
- Knock off or over
- Kim Kardashian's brother
- Kardashian who's on this season's "Dancing With the Stars"
- Kardashian who wrote "Happy birthday Kimburrrrr, thanks for always feeding me cheese fries all day baby"
- Illegally take from
- Hold up at gunpoint
- Hit up, as a store
- Grateful Dead's Hunter
- Former Toronto mayor Ford who died on March 22
- Fictional Petrie (3)
- Emulate a burglar
- Empty out badly?
- Do a smash and grab, for example
- Do a bank heist, e.g
- Cry from classic TV: ''Oh, ___!''
- Cry from classic TV, "Oh, ___!"
- Crack-smoking Toronto mayor Ford
- Commit a holdup
- Comedian Schneider who is singer Elle King's dad
- Co-star of Carroll, Jean, and Sally
- Carl's director son
- Brother of Kourtney, Kim, and Khloé Kardashian
- Brother of Kourtney, Kim, and Khloé
- Brother of Kourtney, Kim and Khloe
- Baseball commissioner ___ Manfred
- Apt first name for a thief?
- Apt first name for a thief
- Actor/director Reiner
- Actor Reiner or Lowe
- Actor James-Collier of "Downton Abbey"
- Actor Estes
- Actor Corddry who costars in HBO's "Ballers"
- Actor Corddry of HBO's "Ballers"
- Actor Corddry of "Hot Tub Time Machine"
- Act the bandit
- "The Grinder" star Lowe
- "Smooth" singer Thomas
- "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" co-creator McElhenney
- "It Takes Two" rapper Base
- "Into the Woods" (2014) director Marshall
- "Code Black" actor Lowe
- "Ballers" actor Corddry who recently got his third tattoo
- "___ Roy" (1995 film)
- ___ Roy (whiskey cocktail)
- Scottish hero
- Deprive (of)
- Hold up, as a bank
- Morrow of "Quiz Show"
- "Knock over"
- Loot
- Plunder, e.g
- Scott's "___ Roy"
- ___ blind
- Burgle
- Rip off forcefully
- Take the wrong way?
- Steal from
- Swindle
- Stick up or knock off
- Clear the register, maybe
- Fleece
- Sack
- Mug, e.g
- Knock over, so to speak
- Defraud
- Finish a mugging
- Laura's husband in 60's TV
- Knock off, as a bank
- Laura's 1960s sitcom hubby
- Mug, say
- Take the money and run?
- Mug, e.g.
- Pirate, e.g.
- Way overcharge, say
- Thieve
- Emulate Sutton
- What riflers do
- Pillage
- Roy or Reiner
- Roy's first name?
- Rifle
- Emulate Willie Sutton
- Filch from
- Hijack, e.g
- Emulate Jesse James
- Reiner or Roy
- Morrow of "Northern Exposure"
- Steal forcibly
- What highwaymen do
- "Auld ___ Morris," Burns poem
- Boston Marathon winner de Castella: 1986
- ___ Peter to pay Paul
- Burglarize
- Ape Sutton
- ___ the cradle
- Smash and grab
- Make a heist
- ___ Roy (cocktail)
- What footpads do
- Good name for a thief?
- Alcoholic Roy
- Do some freebooting
- Pull a stickup
- "Auld ___ Morris": Burns
- Attack and steal from boy
- Steal short dress
- Steal from Sherwood inhabitant who’s not at home
- Take something without the owner's consent
- Take property from
- Take from, by force
- Man's nickname
- Boy’s name
- Take illegally
- Director Reiner
- One of the Kardashians
- Take the wrong way
- Scottish hero Roy
- Take badly?
- Reiner of "All in the Family"
- Actor Lowe who wrote the 2014 memoir "Love Life"
- Reiner, the younger
- Roll, in a way
- Mr. Reiner
- Commit a crime
- Clean out the register, perhaps
- Shoplift from
- Pick pockets, e.g
- Mr. Lowe
- Fitting name for a thief?
- Tight end Gronkowski
- Swipe from
- Seriously overcharge
- Pirate, e.g
- Mr. Morrow
- Matchbox Twenty lead singer ___ Thomas
- ___ Roy (Scottish hero)
- Word with the cradle or blind
- Word with blind or the cradle
- Take wrong?
- Take unlawfully from
- Scottish legend Roy
- Scott's Roy
- Scot Roy
- Reiner the younger
- Reiner of film
- Pull a heist
- Pilfer from
- Old school hip-hop singer ___ Base
- Lowe or Morrow
- Lowe of "Parks and Recreation" or Morrow of "Numb3rs"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rob \Rob\, v. i. To take that which belongs to another, without right or permission, esp. by violence.
I am accursed to rob in that thief's company.
--Shak.
Rob \Rob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Robbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Robbing.] [OF. rober, of German origin; cf. OHG. roub?n, G. rauben, and OHG. roub robbing, booty, G. raub. [root]114. See Reave,and cf. Robe.]
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To take (something) away from by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from.
Who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish?
--Milton.He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robbed at all.
--Shak.To be executed for robbing a church.
--Shak. (Law) To take the property of (any one) from his person, or in his presence, feloniously, and against his will, by violence or by putting him in fear.
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To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud; as, to rob one of his rest, or of his good name; a tree robs the plants near it of sunlight.
I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 12c., from Old French rober "rob, steal, pillage, ransack, rape," from West Germanic *rauba "booty" (cognates: Old High German roubon "to rob," roub "spoil, plunder;" Old English reafian, source of the reave in bereave), from Proto-Germanic *raubon "to rob," from PIE *reup-, *reub- "to snatch" (see rip (v.)).Lord, hou schulde God approve þat þou robbe Petur, and gif þis robbere to Poule in þe name of Crist? [Wyclif, c.1380]To rob the cradle is attested from 1864 in reference to drafting young men in the American Civil War; by 1949 in reference to seductions or romantic relationships with younger persons. Related: Robbed; robbing.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (lb en transitive) To steal from, especially using force or violence. 2 (lb en transitive) To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud. 3 (lb en transitive figuratively used with "of") To deprive (of). 4 (lb en intransitive slang) To burgle. 5 (lb en intransitive) To commit robbery. 6 (lb en sports) To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from. Etymology 2
alt. The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches a syrupy consistency. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar. n. The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire until it reaches a syrupy consistency. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Rob or ROB may refer to: __NOTOC__
Rob (1939 – 18 January 1952) was a Collie dog who in February 1945 was awarded the Dickin Medal. considered to be the animals' Victoria Cross. He was alleged to have made over 20 parachute descents during the North African Campaign, serving with the SAS. However, in 2006, his actions were revealed as being a possible hoax perpetrated by members of his regiment in order to prevent Rob leaving after his original owners requested his return.
Rob (stylized in promos as ¡Rob!) is an American sitcom television series that premiered on CBS on January 12, 2012, at as a mid-season replacement for Rules of Engagement, and ended on March 1, 2012. The series stars Rob Schneider alongside Cheech Marin, Claudia Bassols, Diana Maria Riva, Eugenio Derbez, Ricky Rico, and Lupe Ontiveros. The show was produced by Two and a Half Mens The Tannenbaum Company and CBS Television Studios. On May 13, 2012, CBS canceled the series.
Rob is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Chris Rob, American musician
- Luboš Rob (born 1970), Czech ice hockey player
- Luboš Rob (ice hockey b. 1995), Czech ice hockey player
Rob is a masculine given name, frequently a shortened version ( hypocorism) of Robert. It may refer to:
- Rob Adams (architect) (born 1948), Australian architect and urban designer
- Rob Bailey (cricketer) (born 1963), English cricketer
- Rob Bailey (director), English television director
- Rob Bailey (musician), Australian musician
- Rob Brown (disambiguation)
- Rob Burch (footballer) (born 1983), English retired football goalkeeper
- Rob Burch (politician) (born 1946), American politician
- Rob Davies (disambiguation)
- Rob Davis (disambiguation)
- Rob Edwards - see Robert Edwards (disambiguation)
- Rob Harley (born 1990), Scottish rugby union player
- Rob Jacobs (born 1943), Dutch association football former player and manager
- Rob James (disambiguation)
- Rob Johnson (disambiguation)
- Rob Mariano (born 1975), American reality television competitor, winner of Survivor: Redemption Island
- Rob Moore (disambiguation)
- Rob Morris (American football) (born 1975), American former National Football League player
- Rob Morris (Freemason) (1818–1888), American poet and Freemason
- Rob Palmer (disambiguation)
- Rob Parker (disambiguation)
- Rob Schneider (born 1963), American actor, comedian, screenwriter and director
- Rob Stewart (actor) (born 1961), Canadian actor
- Rob Stewart (filmmaker) (born 1979), Canadian filmmaker
- Rob Vickers (born 1981), English rugby union player
- Rob Walker (disambiguation)
- Rob Warner (footballer) (born 1977), English retired footballer
- Rob Warner (mountain biker) (born 1970), English mountain biker, motocross rider and TV presenter
- Rob Watson (disambiguation)
- Rob Zombie (born 1965), American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer Robert Bartleh Cummings
Category:Masculine given names
Usage examples of "rob".
StregaSchloss on the end of a moth-eaten damask curtain was a bad idea, or maybe the sight of the Borgia money going to such an undeserving home had simply robbed the estate lawyer of the will to live, but miraculously his abseiling suicide attempt didnt kill him.
He then rendered it suffocating by closing the amado, for the reason often given, that if he left them open and the house was robbed, the police would not only blame him severely, but would not take any trouble to recover his property.
Somebody tauld her lately that ane Bell Calvert robbed her house, but she disna believe it.
It would seem as if skill and polish, with the amount of attention which they appropriate, with their elevation of manner over matter, and thence their lowered standard, are apt to rob from or blur in men these highest qualifications of genius, for it is true that judges miss even in the Lionardo, Michael Angelo, and Raphael of a later and much more accomplished generation, and, to a far greater extent, in the Rubens of another and still later day, the perfect simplicity, the unalloyed fervour, the purity of tenderness in Giotto, Orcagna, Fra Angelico, and in their Flemish brethren, the Van Eycks and Mabuse.
Its waste is a wanton expenditure, which robs the blood of its richness and exhausts the body of its animating powers.
Lysie was claimed by Marten of Argon, the man she assaulted and robbed.
Every so often, he would take the slowmatch from out the clamp and whirl it around several times in the air before once more securing it back into the serpentine of his clumsy arquebus, for if that scurvy, ill-natured pig of a Seosaidh Scot who had robbed him of his well-earned sleep and set him to this useless, thankless task should come by and find his match unlit, he surely would set about thrashing Raibert.
The newspapers in the notices of the burning of the steamer had given attention chiefly to Lynn, merely stating briefly that Badger had been drugged and robbed by the ex-boat-keeper.
Fool, I, Rob, do Rob and have Robbed greater Robbers that I might by Robbery live to Rob like Robbers again, as thou, by thy foolish folly, fooleries make, befooling fools lesser than thou, that thou, Fool, by such fool-like fooleries may live to fool like fools again!
Randall Birley had been her hero, but paradoxically the whole episode had robbed her of hero-worship.
The bothy had been robbed, as far as I could see, of everything I could have raised money on.
My situation was not pleasant to contemplate: I had been drugged, cheated, robbed, abused, imprisoned, threatened with a mulct of a hundred thousand francs, which would have stripped me to my shirt, as nobody knew the contents of my pocket-book.
Our occupation is robbing, cheating, and escaping from one land to another.
Do you know, dearest, that I cannot understand how you could fall in love with me after having known her, any more than I can conceive how she does not hate me ever since she has discovered that I have robbed her of your heart.
He had a fixed impression that all the tenants robbed him, so whenever he found a bunch of grapes in a cottage he proceeded to beat the occupants unless they could prove that the grapes did not come from his vineyards.