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bob up

  1. Appear suddenly or unexpectedly. For example, I didn't know anyone in the group until Harry bobbed up. This term uses the verb bob in the sense of “to bounce,” a usage dating from Chaucer's day. [Late 1800s]



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In the 30 years before the mid 1990s, net migration, the number arriving minus the number leaving, bobbed up and down but was broadly balanced.

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He beamed as his head bobbed up and down.

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I reassured her this was not the case and rapidly tried to build a bond as we bobbed up and down a few metres apart.

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A standout moment on Tamara's nine-week expedition in Antarctica's Weddell Sea was when two seals bobbed up to the surface to take a deeper breath after falling asleep alongside the ship.

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He disappeared under the water and in a while his head bobbed up, far out and downstream.

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