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Meaning:

acronym:

  • jocular Battery-operated boyfriend, that is, a vibrator.
  • philately Back-of-the-book; denoting those stamps in a catalogue that are not used for the payment of regular postage fees, and are displayed separately in the catalogue after that listing; the division between these two groups varies with the publisher.

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Noun:

  • shishkabob
  • A bobber.
  • A bobbing motion.
  • A bob haircut.
  • A curtsy.
  • An unspecified amount of money.
  • A shilling.
  • A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
  • graphics A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
  • The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
  • The docked tail of a horse.
  • The short runner of a sled.

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Proper noun:

  • A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
  • In various fields such as cryptography and physics, a conventional name for the person or system that receives a message from another person or system conventionally known as Alice.

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Verb:

  • intransitive To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water.
  • Short form of bobsleigh
  • To curtsy.
  • transitive To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
  • transitive To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
  • transitive To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop

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