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bobby

UK/ˈbɒbi/US/ˈbɑbi/

bobby noun: a police officer.

Noun (1)

bobby (plural bobbies)

  1. (Australia, Ireland, UK, slang) A police officer.
    • If I am wrong, and if Lessingham’s wrong, how do you explain his extraordinary insistence on taking it inside the cab with him, which the bobby describes?1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
    • "We are looking at being able to fly [drones] tens of miles from base, which is going to make a huge difference. It is the equivalent of having bobbies on the beat."2025 July 23, Paul Clifton, “Air force: drones' developing railway role”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 31
  2. (Australia, Ireland, UK, slang) A railway signaller.

Noun (2)

bobby (plural bobbies)

  1. (Scotland, slang) A penis.
  2. (Multicultural-London-English) Cocaine.
    • Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin
      They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody
      Hold that properly when I bang that dotty
      I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby2017, “Next Up?”, Digga D (lyrics), performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y)
    • Bad one wanna give man toppy
      She wanna suck off, follow my crew!
      On the backroad serving molly, she been battling bad for the bobby
      Saying she is sick: It's not a flu2025 October 31, TT NDO, “Brucky 3style” (1:17–1:25 from the start), ProdbyN0luvjah (music)
  3. A calf that is slaughtered in its first month, usually because it has no mother or because it is undersized or otherwise defective.
    • The already low proportion of Friesian and Hereford Friesian cross calves sold as bobbies declined to almost insignificant proportions and there was a very steep drop in the proportion of bobby calves in the other breeds1970, Great Britain. Milk Marketing Board. Breeding and Production Organization, Report of the Breeding and Production Organization
    • The following is the Victorian code of practice as it refers to the welfare of bobby calves.2002, John Moran, Calf Rearing: A Practical Guide, →ISBN, page 44
  4. A banana that is extra small in size.
    • My kids like bobby bananas, but they're in plastic.2017 June 14, Sarah Catherall, “I tried to live plastic free for a week and it's impossible”, in The Press

Proper noun capitalized: Bobby

Bobby

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
    • It was a real irritation to Robert's parents to hear Adeline call him Bobby. They tried to intimate their disapproval by pronouncing his name very distinctly when they addressed him.1944, Mazo de la Roche, The Building of Jalna, Dundurn Press Ltd, published 2009, →ISBN, page 163
    • Legendary soul singer Bobby Womack died Friday, Womack’s publicist said. He was 70.2014 June 27, Holly Yan, “Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bobby Womack dies”, in CNN
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.

bobby meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

bobby in Hindi

बॉबी, बोबी

bobby in Tamil

பாபி

bobby in Marathi

बॉबी, बोबी

bobby in Urdu

بوبی, بابی
More languagesFewer languages
bobby in Bengali
লালপাগড়ি, পাহারাত্তয়ালা
bobby in Telugu
బాబి, బాబీ
bobby in Malayalam
ബോബി, ബാബി
bobby in Kannada
ಬಾಬಿ
bobby in Punjabi
ਬੌਬੀ, ਬੋਬੀ
bobby in Gujarati
બોબી, બૉબી
bobby in Odia
ବବି, ବାବି, ବୋବି
bobby in Nepali
बोबी, बॉबी

Examples of bobby in a sentence

  • Bobby used a hammer and nails to fix the two planks together.
  • Bobby really dug into his potatoes.
  • Could you fetch me some bobby pins?” She shoved the clutch into my hands.

All 30 example sentences with bobby

Forms of bobby

Noun
pluralbobbies
Proper noun
alternative formBobbie
alternative formBobbi

Plural of bobby: bobbies

Origin of bobby

From the given name of Sir Robert Peel, who established London’s police force.

From Bob + -y.

Words formed from bobby

Phrases with bobby

Words that rhyme with bobby

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about bobby

What does bobby mean?
Bobby means a police officer.
What is bobby in Hindi?
Bobby in Hindi is बॉबी, बोबी. See Bobby meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is bobby?
Bobby can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bobby?
Bobby is pronounced /ˈbɒbi/ (UK).
What is the plural of bobby?
The plural of bobby is bobbies.

Words near bobby in the dictionary

  1. bobbling
  2. bobbly
  3. bobbol
  4. Bobbs
  5. Bobbsey
  6. bobby
  7. bobby bean
  8. bobby beans
  9. bobby dazzler
  10. bobby dazzlers
  11. Bobby Joe

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bobby (page history and authors); Bobby (page history and authors); bobby (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bobby (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bobby (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bobby (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bobby (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bobby (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bobby (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bobby (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bobby (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bobby (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bobby (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bobby (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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