lob

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lob /lɒb $ lɑːb/ verb (lobbed, lobbing) [transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]

1 informalTHROW to throw something somewhere, especially over a wall, fence etc 高扔，高抛，高掷〔尤指越过墙、篱笆等〕

The kids were lobbing pine cones into the neighbor’s yard.

孩子们把松果扔进邻居的院子中。

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2 DSTDSCto kick or hit a ball in a slow high curve, especially in a game of tennis or football 〔尤指打网球或踢足球时〕将〔球〕挑高

Nadal lobbed the ball high over Murray’s head.

纳达尔将球挑过穆雷的头顶。

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—lob noun [countableC]

Examples from the Corpus

lob• Someone lobbed a book at me, and it hit me in the face.• You can lob a firebomb through the window.• Local kids keep lobbing empty beer cans over our fence.• Armies that ran out of rocks for their catapults would sometimes lob live lepers into besieged towns to scare the inhabitants.• Seles admits she can't lob or serve very well to save her life.• We could lob the ball in to Katrina and Lisa.• The first goal he scored in the famous Burnley game was really something special, he lobs the goalie from miles out.• O'Connell seized on a bad back-pass to lob the winner.

Origin lob

(1500-1600) Probably from lob “loosely hanging object” ((16-19 centuries)), from Low German

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