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Bob

proper nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//bɒb//
  • United States//bɑb//
  • United States//bɔb//

A diminutive of the male given name Robert.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the male given name Robert.

    Miramax Films cofounders Bob and Harvey Weinstein will end their successful, but often tumultuous, 12-year relationship with The Walt Disney Company to launch their own media company.

    For the last decade at least, the trend seems to be that more untraditional names are being chosen over the Bobs, the Toms, the Sues and the Marys.

  2. 2

    The person or system receiving a message or signal from a source conventionally known as Alice.

    The key that Alice and Bob are to share cannot be transmitted in the clear. Either it must be enciphered when sent, or Alice and Bob must derive it without an exhange of data from which the key can be derived.

  3. 3

    God.

Etymology

Probably from a medieval hypocorism of Rob.

noun

  1. 1

    A generic male person.

    It's so simple, even Bob from accounting could do it.

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).