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lob
verb- to throw or chuck; to place roughly; to plonk; to land AUSTRALIA, 1934
- Only a villain would lob a rock on the roof when a poor weak woman was alone in a haunted house. — Kylie Tennant, The Honey Flow, p. 98, 1956
- — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 120, 1962
- “You black b--” I lobbed him one in the jaw. — Dymphna Cusack, Black Lightning, p. 142, 1964
- A week earlier, Thomson had lobbed the mare along well in front as usual. — Gerald Sweeney, The Plunge, p. 323, 1981
- An Australian girl with a Greek father who must have once accidentally lobbed it in the right hole[.] — The Traveller’s Tool, p. 42, 1985
- (of something airborne) to land AUSTRALIA, 1943
- The whole stick lobbed spot-on. — W.R. Bennett, Target Turin, p. 69, 1962
- He went sailing over the old wire fence and lobbed on the rockery roughly 40 feet below, in a screaming heap. — Bluey, Bush Contractors, p. 271, 1975
- to arrive at a place; to turn up, especially unexpectedly AUSTRALIA, 1911
- In he lobs, bodgied up and smelling like dead horse gully. — Arthur Chipper, The Aussie Swearer’s Guide, p. 31, 1972
- He would rather pen and ink on his ace until some of his Chinas lobbed. — Ryan Aven-Bray, Ridgey Didge Oz Jack Lang, p. 11, 1983
- Okay, lob in half an hour from now in the lounge. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 95, 1987
- “The later I lobbed in at The Cardigan and left at about 3.00 with Trace Wickham[.]” — Roy Slaven (John Doyle), Five South Coast Seasons, p. 54, 1992
- (of a racehorse) to win a race AUSTRALIA
- The boy hoped like hell that Button Hole would lob for him. — Clive Galea, Slipper!, p. 5, 1988
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