Crossword-Solution: BOB 3 letters, 420 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Bob	n.	Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail.
Bob	n.	A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
Bob	n.	A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
Bob	n.	The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.
Bob	n.	A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
Bob	n.	A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.
Bob	n.	A working beam.
Bob	n.	A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
Bob	n.	A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.
Bob	n.	The refrain of a song.
Bob	n.	A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
Bob	n.	A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
Bob	n.	A shilling.
Bob	n.	To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.
Bob	n.	To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
Bob	n.	To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
Bob	n.	To mock or delude; to cheat.
Bob	n.	To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.
Bob	v. i.	To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.
Bob	v. i.	To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3.

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Word		Anagrams
BOB	anagram	OBB

We have 420 clues for the answer “BOB”

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"Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama" memoirist Odenkirk	1 answer
"Happy little trees" painter Ross	1 answer
"Sesame Street" music teacher since the show's inception	1 answer
"The Joy of Painting" host Ross	1 answer
"Veil" author Woodward	1 answer
"___ Acres," famous Jefferson role.	1 answer
"___'s your uncle!"	1 answer
1967 World Series MVP Gibson	1 answer
1996 candidate Dole	1 answer
A kind of sled or labour leader White	1 answer
Actor Hoskins	1 answer
Actor McGrath who was one of the original human characters on "Sesame Street"	1 answer
Actor Saget	1 answer
Angler's floater	1 answer
Angling float.	1 answer
Another Newhart sitcom	1 answer
Barker of game shows	1 answer
Barker or Marley	1 answer
Barker who offered prizes	1 answer
Baseball's Gibson	1 answer
Bill's 1996 foe	1 answer
Bing's buddy	1 answer
Bing's buddy in old films	1 answer
Bing's frequent co-star	1 answer
Bing's longtime pal	1 answer
Bing's pal	1 answer
Bisexual ___ (short 'do)	1 answer
Bloke's shilling	1 answer
Bounce like a buoy	1 answer
Boxer's feint	1 answer
Brief curtsey	1 answer
Builder of kid vid	1 answer
Builder of kids' TV	1 answer
Builder on a kiddie show	1 answer
Burger restaurant owner, in a cartoon	1 answer
Burns of the Bazooka.	1 answer
Celebrated Hope	1 answer
Clinton opponent Dole	1 answer
Comedian Newhart	1 answer
Comedian ___ Hope	1 answer
Comic Newhart	1 answer
Comic Saget	1 answer
Comical Newhart	1 answer
Continually resurface	1 answer
Cousy of the NBA	1 answer
Crane of "Hogan's Heroes"	1 answer
Cratchit who works for Scrooge	1 answer
Cropped hairdo	1 answer
Cummings or Goen	1 answer
Curtsy quickly.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TREEA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with BOB (5)

Then she reappeared in a new riding-habit of myrtle green, which fitted her to the waist as a rind fits its fruit; and young Bob Coggan led on her mare, Boldwood fetching his own horse from the tree under which it had been tied.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Popular among hackers as a rich source of bizarre imagery and references such as "Bob" the divine drilling-equipment salesman, the Benevolent Space Xists, and the Stark Fist of Removal.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

The committees composing the IAB and their chairmen are: Committee Chair Autonomous Networks Deborah Estrin End-to-End Services Bob Braden Internet Architecture Dave Mills Internet Engineering Phil Gross EGP2 Mike Petry Name Domain Planning Doug Kingston Gateway Monitoring Craig Partridge Internic Jake Feinler Performance & Congestion ControlRobert Stine NSF Routing Chuck Hedrick Misc.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet Ed Krol 1992

And perhaps it was the pleasure the good Spirit had in showing off this power of his, or else it was his own kind, generous, hearty nature, and his sympathy with all poor men, that led him straight to Scrooge's clerk's; for there he went, and took Scrooge with him, holding to his robe; and on the threshold of the door the Spirit smiled, and stopped to bless Bob Cratchit's dwelling with the sprinkling of his torch.

A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992

Shucks! Now you tell me how Bob Tanner done it, Huck.” “Why, he took and dipped his hand in a rotten stump where the rain-water was.” “In the daytime?” “Certainly.” “With his face to the stump?” “Yes.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with BOB (3)

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

Bob Dylan Chronicles, Vol. 1

How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print?

Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

No, this, she felt, was real life and if she wasn’t as curious or passionate as she had once been, that was only to be expected. It would be inappropriate, undignified, at thirty-eight, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour and intensity of a twenty-two-year-old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry, crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photo-booths, taking a whole day to make a compilation tape, asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just …

David Nicholls One Day

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 408 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).