lob

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

lob

lober

lancer en chandelle

chandelle

🅰️

lobber

lancer haut

faire un lob

Synonymes

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

Traductions

pallonetto

Lob

βλάχος

αργοκινούμαι

globus

χωριάτης

havaya vurulan top

περπατώ

αγροίκος

mom

lob

candèla

devolução

lob

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/lɒb/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: lob

Hérité de ancien anglais: *lobb

Appartenant à danois: lobbes

Appartenant à ancien anglais: loppe

Appartenant à danois: lubbe

In summary

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