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lob
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lob has 2 senses
- lob(n = noun.act) Array - an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc; Array is a kind of return
- lob(n = noun.act) Array - the act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc; Array is a kind of actuation, propulsion
Derived form verb lob1
Derived form verb lob1
Verb lob has 1 sense
- lob(v = verb.contact) Array - propel in a high arc; "lob the tennis ball" is one way to throw
Derived forms noun lob2, noun lob1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
- A dull, heavy person. Gauden. [1913 Webster]
- Something thick and heavy. [1913 Webster]
lob, v. t.
- To let fall heavily or lazily. [1913 Webster]
- to propel (relatively slowly) in a high arcing trajectory; as, to lob a grenade at the enemy. [PJC]"And their poor jades
Lob down their heads." [1913 Webster]
lob, v. t.
See Cob, v. t. [1913 Webster]
lob, n. [Dan. lubbe.].
The European pollock. [1913 Webster]
lob, n.
The act of lobbing; [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
lob, v. & n.
--v.tr. (lobbed, lobbing)
1 hit or throw (a ball or missile etc.) slowly or in a high arc.
2 send (an opponent) a lobbed ball.
--n.
1 a a ball struck in a high arc. b a stroke producing this result.
2 Cricket a slow underarm ball.
--v.tr. (lobbed, lobbing)
1 hit or throw (a ball or missile etc.) slowly or in a high arc.
2 send (an opponent) a lobbed ball.
--n.
1 a a ball struck in a high arc. b a stroke producing this result.
2 Cricket a slow underarm ball.
Etymology
earlier as noun, prob. f. LG or Du.
THESAURUS
lob
boost, bowl, buoy up, cast, cast up, catapult, chuck, chunk, dart, dash, elevate, erect, escalate, fire, fling, flip, fork, heave, heft, heighten, heist, hike, hoick, hoist, hold up, hurl, hurtle, jerk, jerk up, knock up, lance, launch, let fly, levitate, lift, lift up, loft, pass, peg, pelt, perk up, pitch, pitchfork, put, put the shot, raise, raise up, rear, rear up, rise, serve, set up, shy, sky, sling, snap, stick up, throw, throw up, tilt, toss, up, upbuoy, upcast, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, upthrow
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