Dob vs. Lob — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dob and Lob
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Dob
To report (a person) to someone in authority for a wrongdoing.
I’ll dob on you if you break in.
You dobbed me in! — I never did!
Lob
To hit, throw, or propel in a high arc
Lob a beach ball.
Lob a tennis shot over an opponent's head.
Dob
To do one's share; to contribute.
We all dobbed in for a gift when he retired.
Lob
To hit a ball in a high arc.
Dob
To nominate a person, often in their absence, for an unpleasant task.
I arrived just after the meeting had started and found myself dobbed in to take the minutes.
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Lob
To move heavily or clumsily.
Dob
To play truant
Lob
A ball hit, thrown, or propelled in a high arc.
Dob
In the scouting movement, to chant dob to indicate that one will do one's best to follow the scouting laws.
Lob
(Slang)A clumsy dull person; a lout.
Dob
A small amount of something, especially paste.
Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.
Lob
(transitive) 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.
Dob
Initialism of date of birth
Lob
To throw.
Lob
To put, place.
Lob the bacon in the pot.
Lob
To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
Lob
To let fall heavily or lazily.
Lob
A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.
The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.
Lob
A lump.
Lob
(obsolete) A country bumpkin; a yokel.
Lob
A clumsy person.
Lob
The person who comes last in a race.
Lob
A lob-worm.
Lob
A fish, the European pollock.
Lob
A dull, heavy person.
Lob
Something thick and heavy.
Lob
The European pollock.
Lob
The act of lobbing;
Lob
To let fall heavily or lazily.
And their poor jadesLob down their heads.
Lob
To propel (relatively slowly) in a high arcing trajectory; as, to lob a grenade at the enemy.
Lob
An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc
Lob
The act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc
Lob
Propel in a high arc;
Lob the tennis ball
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