Lob

Pronunciation

• enPR: lŏb, IPA: /lÉ’b/
• Rhymes: -É’b

Full definition of lob

Verb

1. To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.
2. (colloquial) To throw.
3. (colloquial) To put, placeLob it in the pot.
4. (sports) To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
• 2011, January 15, Nabil Hassan, Wigan 1 - 1 Fulham, Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To let fall heavily or lazily.
• ShakespeareAnd their poor jades
  Lob down their heads.

Noun

1. (ball sports) A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.
• 2011, February 12, Nabil Hassan, Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle, Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left.

Derived terms

• lob wedge

Welsh

Noun

1. a lump
• 1875, M.L. Kenny, The fortunes of Maurice Cronin, And, moreover, I had no sooner set my eyes on the keys, than I remembered where there was a lob of money lying in Purcell's safe, that I --
2. (obsolete) a country bumpkin, clown
• Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon.
• THE country lob trudged home very much concerned and thoughtful, you may swear; insomuch that his good woman, seeing him thus look moping, weened that something had been stolen from him at market ...

Danish lubbe.

Noun

1. A fish, the European pollock.

Verb

1. (mining) To cob (chip off unwanted pieces of stone).

Anagrams

• LBO