bobbed

English

Adjective

bobbed (not comparable)

1. Having a bob haircut.
   • 1925, Plastics and Molded Products, page 49:

     The demand for special combs for bobbed hair […]

   • 2011, Katie Sutton, The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 30:

     In a typical example from 1924, the BIZ published a photograph of a young, bobbed woman wearing an oversized bow tie and neat mustache, accompanied by the “horrific news” from a North American fashion guru that “[w]hen one does not permit hair to flourish on the head, it will grow on the face and body. The ladies will grow mustaches.”

   • 2019, Angie Kim, Miracle Creek, New York, N.Y.: Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

     That morning, as she was rushing past them after the first dive, the silver-bobbed woman had yelled, “We're not going anywhere. See you tonight at 6:45.”

Derived terms

• bobbed wire
• unbobbed

 

Verb

bobbed

1. simple past and past participle of bob