lob

verb

1. (transitive)To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arc.

   “The guard lobbed a pass just over the defender.”

   “The tennis player lobbed the ball, which was a costly mistake.”

2. (colloquial, transitive)To throw.

   “In the months leading up to the election, government representatives took up a cybercrime case against Thanathorn for criticising the government on a Facebook Live video... They also lobbed more legal cases at his party for allegedly spreading false information.”

   “I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.”

3. (colloquial, transitive)To put, place.

   “Lob the bacon in the pot.”

4. (transitive)To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.

   “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.

   “And their poor jades / Lob down their heads.”

6. (Australia, informal, intransitive)To reach or arrive at (a place).

   “So with great trepidation we lobbed at the theatre and were escorted to our seats[.]”

noun

1. A pass or stroke which arcs high into the air.

   “The guard launched a desperate lob over the outstretched arms of the defender.”

   “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.”

2. A lump.

   “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 —”

3. (obsolete)A country bumpkin; a yokel.

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

   “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 […]”

4. A clumsy person.
5. The person who comes last in a race.
6. A lob-worm.
7. A fish, the European pollock.
8. A long bob haircut.
9. (UK, obsolete, slang)A form of fraud in which a person asks for change in a shop, palms some of the coins, and tells the shopkeeper that he has not given them enough.

   “Some are acute for the Lob; which is, going into a Shop to have a Guinea or Pistole chang'd, and the Change being given, the bringer of the Gold telling it over, Palms Two or Three Shillings, then returning the Money, says there wants so much, which the Shop-keeper telling over again, and finding short, very innocently crys 'tis true, and makes up the Summ.”

10. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of large object.
11. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of line of business.
12. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of limit order book, an order book of limit orders.
13. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of live on board (i.e. liveaboard)

name

1. A surname.