lob

• enPR: lŏb, IPA^(key): /lɒb/

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• Rhymes: -ɒb

First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.

lob (third-person singular simple present lobs, present participle lobbing, simple past and past participle lobbed)

1. (transitive) To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc.

   The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.

   The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.

2. (transitive, colloquial) To throw.

   Synonyms: fling, hurl; see also Thesaurus:throw

   • 2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera‎^[1], Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 6 April 2019:

     In the months leading up to the election, government representatives took up a cybercrime case against Thanathorn for criticising the government on a Facebook Live video... They also lobbed more legal cases at his party for allegedly spreading false information.

   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:

     I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.

3. (transitive, colloquial) To put, place.

   Synonyms: lay, lay down, put down, set down, deposit

   Lob the bacon in the pot.

4. (transitive, sports) To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
   • 2011 January 15, Nabil Hassan, “Wigan 1 - 1 Fulham”, in BBC‎^[2]:

     Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post.

5. (obsolete, transitive) To let fall heavily or lazily.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     And their poor jades / Lob down their heads.

6. (Australia, intransitive, informal) To reach or arrive at (a place).
   • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 204:

     So with great trepidation we lobbed at the theatre and were escorted to our seats[.]

lob (plural lobs)

2. (ball games) A pass or stroke which arcs high into the air.

   The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.

   • 2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC‎^[3]:

     Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left.

From Middle English lob (“a lazy lout, bundle of clothing”), from Old English *lobb, *lobbe word for lumpish or unwieldy things, from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ (“that which hangs or dangles”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lep- (“to peel, skin”). Compare Danish lobbes (“bumpkin, clown”), Old English loppe (“spider”) (in the sense of something that hangs or dangles). Possibly influenced or borrowed through Welsh llob (“lump”).

lob (plural lobs)

1. A lump.
   • 1875, M.L. Kenny, The fortunes of Maurice Cronin‎^[4], page 126:

     And, moreover, I had no sooner set my eyes on the keys, than I remembered where there was a lob of money lying in Purcell's safe, that I —

2. (obsolete) A country bumpkin; a yokel.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:country bumpkin

   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon.

   • 1694, Peter Anthony Motteux, The Fourth Book, translation of original by Rabelais, Chapter XLVII:

     THE country lob trudged home very much concerned and thoughtful, you may swear; insomuch that his good woman, seeing him thus look moping, weened that something had been stolen from him at market […]

3. A clumsy person.
4. The person who comes last in a race.
5. A lob-worm.

From Middle English lob (“pollock”), cognate with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German lobbe (“a type of small plump or stocky fish, cod”), Danish lubbe, from Old Norse lubba, ultimately from sense 2 in the sense of "clumsy, heavily or lumpily hanging."

lob (plural lobs)

1. A fish, the European pollock.

Blend of long +‎ bob.

lob (plural lobs)

1. A long bob haircut.

the lob

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A form of fraud in which a person asks for change in a shop, palms some of the coins, and tells the shopkeeper that he has not given them enough.
   • 1703, Hell Upon Earth, page 4:

     Some are acute for the Lob; which is, going into a Shop to have a Guinea or Pistole chang'd, and the Change being given, the bringer of the Gold telling it over, Palms Two or Three Shillings, then returning the Money, says there wants so much, which the Shop-keeper telling over again, and finding short, very innocently crys 'tis true, and makes up the Summ.

• lob-sneaking

• lob-on (unknown etymology)

• Nall, John Greaves (2006): Nall's Glossary of East Anglian Dialect

• LBO, Bol., OBL, bol

• IPA^(key): /lɔp/
• Hyphenation: lob
• Rhymes: -ɔp

From Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós).

lob f or m (plural lobben, diminutive lobbetje n)

1. lobe, lobule

Borrowed from English lob.

lob m (plural lobs, diminutive lobje n)

1. lob (arcing pass of a ball)

   Synonym: boogbal

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lob

1. inflection of lobben:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Borrowed from English lob.

• IPA^(key): /lɔb/

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lob m (plural lobs)

1. (tennis) lob

• “lob”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• bol

Partly back-formation from lobog, lobban, partly splitting from the obsolete lobb (“flame”).^[1][2] First attested in 1829.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlob]
• Hyphenation: lob
• Rhymes: -ob

lob

1. (medicine) inflammation

   Synonym: gyulladás

• lob in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Borrowed from English lob.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔb/
• Rhymes: -ɔb
• Hyphenation: lòb

lob m (invariable)

1. lob (in ball games)

   Synonym: pallonetto

From Old English lobbe, variant of loppe.

lob

1. alternative form of loppe (“spider”)

From Proto-West Germanic *lob.

lob n

1. praise

• German: Lob

Borrowed from French lobe.

lob m (plural lobi)

1. lobe

lob c

1. (anatomy) a lobe

• hjärnlob
• hjässlob
• leverlob
• lunglob
• pannlob

• lob in Svensk ordbok (SO)
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• lob in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)