Clues for the word "BOB"
We've had 227 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 505 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 31, 2025.
Definition of bob
- n. - Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail.
- n. - A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
- n. - A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
- n. - The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.
- n. - A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
- n. - A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.
- n. - A working beam.
- n. - A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
- n. - A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.
- n. - The refrain of a song.
- n. - A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
- n. - A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
- n. - A shilling.
- n. - To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.
- n. - To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- n. - To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
- n. - To mock or delude; to cheat.
- n. - To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.
- v. i. - To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.
- v. i. - To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3.
Referring Clues
- Weave's partner
- Float
- Tiny Tim's dad
- Hope for laughs?
- Go up and down in the water
- Short haircut
- Jerk
- Go up and down
- Short cut
- What buoys do on the water
- Short do
- End of a plumb line
- Short hairstyle
- Go after an apple, perhaps
- Go for floating apples
- Go after floating apples
- Feller in Cooperstown
- Try for apples
- Builder of kids' TV
- Cousy of the NBA
- Flapper's hairdo
- Hall of Fame pitcher Gibson
- Move up and down
- Try for a floating apple
- Builder on a kiddie show
- Shilling, informally
- Flapper's coiffure
- Duck for apples
- Bounce up and down
- Bounce like a buoy
- Hope on the stage
- Float up and down
- Ray's comedy partner
- Continually resurface
- Dole or Hoskins
- 1996 candidate Dole
- Frequent 1-Across costar
- Partner of weave
- With 33-Down, Disney CEO since 2005
- Weight on a pendulum
- Flapper's do
- McGrath of "Sesame Street"
- Yankee Stadium public address announcer Sheppard
- Try for an apple
- Little jerk
- Shillings
- Dole or Dylan
- Comic Newhart
- Move like a buoy
- Cut short
- Barker who offered prizes
- ___ and weave
- Bounce (up and down)
- Short hairdo
- Rock's Dylan
- Weave's go-with
- Angler's float
- FIRST NAME (See 20-, 40- and 56-Across)
- Weave partner
- Small float
- Hairstyle with a man's name
- Barker of game shows
- Head movement
- Singer Dylan
- Go for the pippin
- Dylan or Dole
- Go up and down, as in the water
- ___ for apples
- Sportscaster Costas
- Rise and fall repeatedly
- Word before cat or sled
- Marley from Jamaica
- Rise and fall
- Angler's floater
- Newhart or Hope
- Weave's partner, in boxing
- Try to retrieve an apple
- Bill's 1996 foe
- Slangy shillings
- Stanfield, familiarly
- Statesman Stanfield
- Comical Newhart
- Reggae's Marley
- Hoskins of the Long Good Friday
- Bing's buddy in old films
- What buoys do
- Hope or Newhart
- 'Weird Al' Yankovic song composed solely of palindromes
- Hope of comedy
- Bing's frequent co-star
- Fishing aid
- Angling aid
- Short cut?
- Drew's daytime-TV predecessor
- Bing's pal
- Go after an apple?
- Hope or Barker
- Ray's longtime partner
- 25-Down's other half
- Hope or Seger
- Bing's buddy
- Actor Saget
- Actor Hoskins
- Float on a wave
- Pursue floating apples
- "Sesame Street" music teacher since the show's inception
- Marley or Dylan
- Float like a cork
- Bing's longtime pal
- Saget or Newhart
- Go for apples
- Reggae legend, to fans
- Watergate journalist Woodward
- Fishing float
- Fisherman's float
- Reggae legend Marley
- First male hurricane (1979)
- Emcee barker
- Float along
- Legendary Hope
- Part of a boxing maneuver
- Sassy hairdo
- Plumb line attachment
- Dole out in politics?
- Comedian ___ Hope
- First name in Reggae
- Head motion
- Square hairdo
- Another Newhart sitcom
- Go up and down, as an apple
- Baseball's Gibson
- Entertainer Hope
- Dylan or Hope
- Saget or Hoskins
- Palindromic boy's name
- Move up and down repeatedly
- Short 'do
- Go up and down, as a buoy
- Denver of "Gilligan's Island"
- Clip
- Dock
- Songwriter Dylan
- Buffalo ___
- Mr. Hope
- Mr. Feller
- Mr. Saget
- Bing's partner, in film
- Saget or Seger
- ___ for apples (use only the mouth)
- Eubanks or Barker
- Go for an apple
- Sesame Street's longest-lasting human character
- Your uncle's hairstyle?
- Newhart of "Newhart"
- Kids' show builder
- "Better Call Saul" star Odenkirk
- Nickname for Robert, often
- Literature Nobelist Dylan
- Singer/songwriter Dylan
- Famous mixer/producer Clearmountain
- Iconic Dylan
- Curtsy - builder
- See 21
- He's suspended
- Pendulum
- Is he suspended?
- Dickensian advice for treating itch, involving shilling in change?
- He may well be suspended
- Hairstyle
- He's plumb suspended!
- Brief curtsy - hairstyle
- Pendulum weight
- 1967 World Series MVP Gibson
- Try to get apples in water
- Shilling
- "Hook" actor Hoskins
- Ride the waves
- Girl's short haircut
- Nod (head)
- Hope of showbiz
- Hope for laughs?
- A kind of sled or labour leader White
- Comic, ___ Hope
- "The Post" actor Odenkirk
- Gibson in Cooperstown
- Mr. Dylan
- Woodward of Woodward and Bernstein
- Possible swinger with a hangup!
- Dylan or Denver
- Clinton opponent Dole
- Short haircut, and a hint to 17-, 25-, 43- and 54-Across
- Barker on TV, once
- With 66-Across, choreographer whose life is depicted in the starts of 19-, 36- and 50-Across
- It's always cut short
- As a hanger-on, he's a swinger
- Odenkirk of "Breaking Bad"
- TV's Barker
- Go for a Gala
- Dylan or Seger
- Hairstyle for a small gent?
- Barker or Dylan
- Palindromic hairdo
- Chap hanging on the line?
- A short cut
- Mid-length cut
- What Rihanna has worn in videos
- Hoskins or Vila
- Hope with jokes
- Cropped hairdo
- "Happy little trees" painter Ross
- Duck
- Hairstyle akin to a pageboy
- Is he suspended?
- Actor Newhart
- ___ the Drag Queen
- Move in a way that's plumb vertical?
- Inverted ___ (hairstyle)
- ___ for apples (have some fall fun)
- Title cartoon character who owns a burger restaurant
- ___ the Builder
- Move up and down like a buoy
- Bisexual ___ (short 'do)
- Name before "cat" or "Belcher"
- Flapper's cut
- Mr. Newhart
- Comedian Newhart
- "Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama" memoirist Odenkirk
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 31, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 27, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 20, 2025
- LA Times - November 18, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 17, 2025
- LA Times - November 14, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 04, 2025
- LA Times - October 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 11, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 06, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 16, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 06, 2025
- Daily American - August 05, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 31, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 13, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 12, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 11, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 07, 2025
- Your Life Choices - March 13, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 01, 2025
- LA Times - January 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 27, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - December 26, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 26, 2024
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