bobbed

Etymology

adj

  1. Having a bob haircut.
    The demand for special combs for bobbed hair […] 1925, Plastics and Molded Products, page 49
    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.” 2011, Katie Sutton, The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany, Berghahn Books, page 30
    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.” 2019, Angie Kim, Miracle Creek, New York, N.Y.: Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of bob

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