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lob2    Audio Help   [lob] Pronunciation Key
–noun
lobworm.
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lob1    Audio Help   [lob] Pronunciation Key verb, lobbed, lob·bing, noun
–verb (used with object)
1.Tennis. to hit (a ball) in a high arc to the back of the opponent's court.
2.to fire (a missile, as a shell) in a high trajectory so that it drops onto a target.
3.Cricket. to bowl (the ball) with a slow underhand motion.
4.to throw (something) slowly in an arc.
–verb (used without object)
5.Tennis. to lob a ball.
–noun
6.Tennis. a ball hit in a high arc to the back of the opponent's court.
7.Cricket. a ball bowled with a slow underhand motion.
8.British Dialect. a slow, heavy, dull-witted person.
[Origin: 1325–75; in earlier sense, to behave like a lob (ME lobbe, lob bumpkin, clumsy person, orig. pollack; OE: spider; basic sense, something pendulous); c. MLG, MD lobbe dangling part, stockfish, etc.]

—Related forms
lobber, noun
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