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shadebobs

shadebobs is the plural of shadebob.

Meaning of shadebob

Noun

shadebob (plural shadebobs)

  1. A type of bob (graphical sprite-like element) rendered additively on the display, so that it blends with others but can be easily removed again by decrementing the colour value at each pixel.
    • If I made a shadebob routine, which ran 60Hz on PentiumIII 550Mhz on 320x200x8bit mode, would you be impressed?1999, JT Liimatta, “The Party compo rules.”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

Questions about shadebobs

What is shadebobs the plural of?
Shadebobs is the plural of shadebob.

Words near shadebobs in the dictionary

  1. shade up
  2. shadeable
  3. Shadean
  4. Shadeans
  5. shadebob
  6. shadebobs
  7. shadecloth
  8. shadecloths
  9. shaded
  10. shaded fan-foot
  11. shaded fan-foots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shadebobs (page history and authors); shadebob (page history and authors). 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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