lob

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. (transitive) To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc.
2. (colloquial, transitive) To throw.
3. (colloquial, transitive) To put, place.
4. (transitive) To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To let fall heavily or lazily.
6. (Australia, informal, intransitive) To reach or arrive at (a place).

Noun

A pass or stroke which arcs high into the air.

Noun

1. A lump.
2. (obsolete) A country bumpkin; a yokel.
3. A clumsy person.
4. The person who comes last in a race.
5. A lob-worm.

Noun

A fish, the European pollock.

Noun

A long bob haircut.

Noun

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.

Conceptos

lob

Sinónimos

fling

project

throw

hurl

pitch

cast

toss

up-and-under

heave

chuck

propel

sling

launch

pop-fly

candle

🕯️

catapult

drop

loft

plop

pop

pop-up

pop fly

a clumsy person

barrage

Traducciones

lob

pallonetto

Lob

lober

βλάχος

χωριάτης

περπατώ

globus

αγροίκος

lancer haut

faire un lob

αργοκινούμαι

chandelle

🅰️

lancer en chandelle

lobber

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/lɒb/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: lob

Heredado de inglés antiguo: *lobb

Cognado con danés: lobbes

Cognado con inglés antiguo: loppe

Cognado con danés: lubbe

In summary

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