lob
Plural: lobs
Noun
- an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc
- the act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc
- A pass or stroke which arcs high into the air.
- A lump.
- A country bumpkin; a yokel.
- A clumsy person.
- The person who comes last in a race.
- A lob-worm.
- A fish, the European pollock.
- A long bob haircut.
- 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.
Verb
Verb Forms: lobbed, lobbing, lobs
- To throw, hit, or propel something in a high arc.
- propel in a high arc
- "lob the tennis ball"
- To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc.
- To throw.
- To put, place.
- To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
- To let fall heavily or lazily.
- To reach or arrive at (a place).
Examples
- He decided to lob a short word onto a double letter score, hoping to set up for later.
- Lob the bacon in the pot.
- The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.
- The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.
- The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.
Origin / Etymology
First attested late 16th c. in the sense "allow or cause to dangle, hang," from sense 2.
Synonyms
bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bung, bydlo, carl, cast, chuck, chunk, churl, clodhopper, cook, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin, country cousin, culchie, dash, deposit, dubbo, dump, feck, fling, hayseed, heave, hick, hield, hillbilly, hob, hobnail, hog-rubber, honyock, hoy, huck, hunk, hurl, hurtle, jerk, joskin, launch, lay, lay down, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, promdi, provincial, put down, quoit, redneck, rube, rustic, set down, shy, skew, slight, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing, woolly back, yokel
Scrabble Score: 5
lob: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlob: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lob: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary