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BOB

nounadjectivenouncommon in dialogue

Vibrator (device designed to stimulate a woman's genitals).

noun

  1. 1

    Vibrator (device designed to stimulate a woman's genitals).

Etymology

Acronym of battery-operated boyfriend, fortuitously spelling out the male given name Bob in the case of the humorous colloquial definition.

adjective

  1. 1

    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.

Etymology

Acronym of back of the book.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of bur oak blightAcronym of bur oak blight (“a fungal disease of plants”).

Forms

plural
BOBs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).