bobby

See also: Bobby

English

bobby (plural bobbies)

(British, Ireland, Australia, slang) A police officer.
- 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
  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?
(British, Ireland, Australia, slang) A railway signaller.

police officer

railway signaller

^ Hellweg, Paul (1986) The Insomniac's Dictionary, Facts On File Publications, →ISBN, page 108

bobby (plural bobbies)

(Scotland, slang) A penis.
(MLE) Cocaine.
- 2017, “Next Up?”, Digga D (lyrics), performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y):
  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
A calf that is slaughtered in its first month, usually because it has no mother or because it is undersized or otherwise defective.
- 1970, Great Britain. Milk Marketing Board. Breeding and Production Organization, Report of the Breeding and Production Organization:
  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 in the other breeds
- 2002, John Moran, Calf Rearing: A Practical Guide, →ISBN, page 44:
  The following is the Victorian code of practice as it refers to the welfare of bobby calves.
- 2004, Primary Industries Standing Committee, Cattle, →ISBN, page 21:
  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.
- 2017 June 14, Sarah Catherall, “I tried to live plastic free for a week and it's impossible”, in The Press:
  My kids like bobby bananas, but they're in plastic.

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