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View synonyms for bob up

bob up



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Idioms and Phrases

Appear suddenly or unexpectedly. For example, I didn't know anyone in the group until Harry bobbed up . This term uses the verb bob in the sense of “to bounce,” a usage dating from Chaucer's day. [Late 1800s]

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Example Sentences

If they see us splitting the breeze down Lost River, they won't look for us to bob up from the opposite quarter to-morrow.

His raft began to bob up and down, and pretty soon a wave washed over it and wet Bumper's feet.

All would rise on their hind-feet and bob up and down, at the same time giving the peculiar cry.

"And every time I look at the picture of the fire it'll bob up before me and make me shudder," remarked Will.

Aunt Gwen is a character to be watched, and bound to bob up serenely, with the most amazing assurance, at unexpected times.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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