BOB
Translingual
editSymbol
editBOB
English
editEtymology 1
editAcronym of battery-operated boyfriend, fortuitously spelling out the male given name Bob in the case of the humorous colloquial definition.
Noun
editBOB (plural BOBs)
Etymology 2
editAdjective
editBOB (not comparable)
- (philately) 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 3
editNoun
editBOB (uncountable)
- Acronym of bur oak blight (“a fungal disease of plants”).
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