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"(transitive) To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch."
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"sense": "to throw or hit a ball high into the air",
"word": "bombar"
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"sense": "to throw or hit a ball high into the air",
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"sense": "to throw or hit a ball high into the air",
"word": "tirare un pallonetto"
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"ref": "2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera, Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 2019-04-06",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57",
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"(transitive, colloquial) To throw."
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"ref": "2011 January 15, Nabil Hassan, “Wigan 1 - 1 Fulham”, in BBC",
"text": "Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post.",
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"To let fall heavily or lazily."
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"(obsolete, transitive) To let fall heavily or lazily."
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"ref": "1594, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act II scene I",
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"ref": "1694, Peter Anthony Motteux, The Fourth Book, translation of original by Rabelais, Chapter XLVII",
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"expansion": "lob (plural lobs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A fish, the European pollock."
],
"links": [
[
"fish",
"fish"
],
[
"European pollock",
"European pollock"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/lɒb/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒb"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "lŏb"
}
],
"word": "lob"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɒb",
"Rhymes:English/ɒb/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 4,
"forms": [
{
"form": "lobs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "lobbing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "lobbed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "lobbed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"tags": [
"unknown"
],
"topics": [
"etymology",
"linguistics",
"human-sciences",
"sciences"
],
"word": "lob-on"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Mining"
],
"glosses": [
"To cob (chip off unwanted pieces of stone)."
],
"links": [
[
"mining",
"mining#Noun"
],
[
"cob",
"cob"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mining) To cob (chip off unwanted pieces of stone)."
],
"topics": [
"business",
"mining"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/lɒb/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒb"
},
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"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lob.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/95/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lob.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-lob.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"enpr": "lŏb"
}
],
"word": "lob"
}
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