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 lobbingemptybeer cans over our fence.• Armies that ran out of rocks for their catapults would sometimes lob live lepers into besiegedtowns 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.
Originlob
(1500-1600) Probably from lob“loosely hanging object”((16-19 centuries)), from Low German