bob up (third-person singular simple present bobs up, present participle bobbing up, simple past and past participle bobbed up)
- (intransitive) To rise to the surface; to ascend to the surface and remain floating there.
2011, Curt Iles, A Spent Bullet: Louisiana 1941, page 125:He bobbed up and flailed toward the near bank. The weight of his boots and soaked uniform kept pulling him under.
