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BOB en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Acronym of battery-operated boyfriend, fortuitously spelling out the male given name Bob in the case of the humorous colloquial definition.

Meanings

  1. (humorous) Vibrator (device designed to stimulate a woman's genitals).

Forms

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Source: en.wiktionary, “BOB” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

BOB en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

Acronym of back of the book.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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.

BOB en · NOUN · etymology 3

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable) Acronym of bur oak blight (“a fungal disease of plants”).