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bobbed

bobbed adjective: having a bob haircut. Also the simple past and past participle of bob.

Adjective

bobbed (not comparable)

  1. Having a bob haircut.
    • The demand for special combs for bobbed hair […]1925, Plastics and Molded Products, page 49
    • In a typical example from 1924, the BIZ published a photograph of a young, bobbed woman wearing an oversized bow tie and neat mustache, accompanied by the “horrific news” from a North American fashion guru that “[w]hen one does not permit hair to flourish on the head, it will grow on the face and...2011, Katie Sutton, The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 30

Also used as

bobbed is also the simple past and past participle of bob.

Words formed from bobbed

Phrases with bobbed

Questions about bobbed

What does bobbed mean?
Bobbed means having a bob haircut.
What part of speech is bobbed?
Bobbed is an adjective.

Words near bobbed in the dictionary

  1. bobbars
  2. bobbasheelies
  3. bobbasheely
  4. bobbatlu
  5. bobbe
  6. bobbed
  7. bobbed under
  8. bobbed up
  9. bobbed wire
  10. bobbed wires
  11. bobbejaan spanner

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