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bob
noun- a shilling; a non-specific amount of money UK, 1789
Obsolete since decimalisation in 1971, except in phrases like QUEER AS A NINE BOB NOTE - Are yer gunna pay me the three bob or ain’t yer? — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 16, 1957
- [F]our gets a free card and last card down. “Bob ante,” says Marchmare. — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 40, 1962
- All seems to add up to a pretty fair reason for making a few bob. — John Wynnum, Tar Dust, p. 30, 1962
- I owed Henry half a bar [ten shillings], which left me with thirty bob. — John Peter Jones Feather Pluckers, p. 29, 1964
- Your King and Sam and Matilda need you–bob a day keeps the Gooks away. — Michael Peters, Pommie Bastard, p. 7, 1969
- Your young Miss Ring was charging two bob a fling in the back seat. — Kerry Cue, Crooks, Chooks and Bloody Ratbags, p. 168, 1983
- [T]hey was all getting thirty bob a week. — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 5, 1994
- I had a few bob on me that day and, with the weather being very hot, I had my eyes out for the ice-cream boy. — Rex Hunt, Tall Tales–and True, p. 66, 1994
- a dollar US, 1930
- — Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang, p. 49, 1960
- marijuana US
Very likely derived from Bob Marley, a highly visible marijuana lover. A long list of derivatives play with the term–“see bob” “talk with bob”, “bob’s on the phone”–and serve as a code for discussing marijuana and its use. - — Jim Emerson-Cobb, Scratching the Dragon, April 1997
- a marijuana cigarette US, 1998
Probably abbreviated from Bob Marley or BOB HOPEBOBO BUSH- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 291, 2003
- crack cocaine UK, 1998
An abbreviation of BOBO - in hot rodding and drag racing, to cut or shorten a fender US
- Other modifications include a half-size, custom-designed gas tank, no front fender and a shortened or “bobbed” rear fender that ends at the top of the wheel[.] — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 98, 1966
- a shoplifter US
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 791, 1962
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