lob

Verb

lob (third-person singular simple present lobs, present participle lobbing, simple past and past participle lobbed)

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, place

   Lob 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”, in BBC‎:

     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.
   • Shakespeare

     And their poor jades / Lob down their heads.

Noun

lob (plural lobs)

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”, in BBC‎:

     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.

Noun

lob (plural lobs)

1. a lump
   • 1875, M.L. Kenny, The fortunes of Maurice Cronin‎, page 126:

     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
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II Scene I:

     Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon.

   • 1694, Peter Anthony Motteux, The Fourth Book, translation of original by Rabelais, Chapter XLVII:

     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 […]

Noun

lob (plural lobs)

1. A fish, the European pollock.

Verb

lob (third-person singular simple present lobs, present participle lobbing, simple past and past participle lobbed)

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

Noun

lob f, m (plural lobben, diminutive lobbetje n)

1. lobe, lobule

Noun

lob m (plural lobs, diminutive lobje n)

1. lob (arching pass of a ball)

   Synonym: boogbal

Verb

lob

1. first-person singular present indicative of lobben
2. imperative of lobben

Synonyms

• pallonetto

Descendants

• German: Lob