From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From the verb, [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. One who takes part in apple bobbing .
2. * [en]
3. [en] A buoyant device (frequently made of cork or hollow plastic) attached to a line so as to suspend the end of the line with the hook (and bait or lure ) above the bottom.
4. A style of custom motorcycle with stripped-down bodywork and a shortened (or "bobbed") rear fender .
5. A person who rides a bobsleigh ; a bobsleigher .
6. One who has a bob hairstyle .
7. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2004 | author=Jim C. Tumblin; C. Milton Hinshilwood | title=Fountain City | page=54
|passage=Not to be outdone, another group of students formed the BOBBER's
Union and wore a much different hairstyle.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2005 | author=Rose Weitz | title=Rapunzel's Daughters
|passage=Newspaper articles from the time describe employers who refused to
hire women with bobbed hair [...] In Japan, a speaker at a national
hairdressers' convention declared, “All BOBBERS are not dissolute women, but
all dissolute women are BOBBERS.”}}
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[buoyant fishing device]