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"bob" Definition

  1. a shilling. Formerly BOBSTICK, which may have been the original. BOB-A-NOB, a shilling a-head.
  2. “s’help me BOB,” a street oath, equivalent to “so help me God.” Other words are used in street language for a similarly evasive purpose, _i.e._, CAT, GREENS, TATUR, &c., all equally ridiculous. Ignorant people have a singular habit of saying “so help _my_,” instead of “_me_,” whatever the following words may be. This shows how little they think of the meanings of the phrases most in use among them. The words “so help” are almost invariably pronounced “swelp.”

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Position in the dictionary: 265 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: bobbery, bobbish, bobby, bodkin, body-snatcher, bog, bog-oranges, bog-trotter, bogus, boilers
Previous words in the dictionary: boat, board-of-green-cloth, blurt out, blunt, bluff, bluey, blues, blued, blue-pigeon-flyer, blue ruin

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