/ˈbɒbi/, /ˈbɑbi/
OriginFrom the given name of Sir Robert Peel, who established London’s police force.
- Australia, British, Ireland, slangA 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?”
“"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."”
- Australia, British, Ireland, slangA railway signaller.
- Scotland, slangA penis.
- Multicultural-London-EnglishCocaine.
“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 bobby”
“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 flu”
- 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”
“The following is the Victorian code of practice as it refers to the welfare of bobby calves.”
“All bobby calves must be fed as close as possible to, and at least within 6 hours of, the time of transportation.”
- A banana that is extra small in size.
“My kids like bobby bananas, but they're in plastic.”
- 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.”
“Legendary soul singer Bobby Womack died Friday, Womack’s publicist said. He was 70.”
- A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.
Formsbobbies(plural) · Bobbie(alternative) · Bobbi(alternative)