Bob

Bob may refer to:

• A diminutive of Robert
• Bob (physics), the weight at the end of a pendulum
• BOB (band), a UK indie pop band
• "Bob" (song), a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic from Poodle Hat
• "Bob", a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from the album One Hot Minute
• "B.O.B." (song), a song by Outkast
• B.o.B., a rapper from Atlanta, Georgia
• J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, figurehead of the satirical Church of the SubGenius
• Bob cut, a hairstyle
• Bob FM, a radio format in Canada and the U.S.
• Hurricane Bob, a 1991 hurricane
• Microsoft Bob, an unsuccessful software product
• A slang term for a shilling, a unit of currency
• Bob (TV series), a television comedy starring Bob Newhart
• Bob of Alice and Bob, placeholder characters in cryptography and physics problems
• Bob's Stores, a Northeastern US retail chain
• Bob's Big Boy, a restaurant chain
• Bob's Discount Furniture, a Northeastern US furniture chain
• Bob (Cyrillic: боб), "bean" in many Slavic languages
  • Bob chorba, Bulgarian national dish
• Apple bobbing

Acronyms

• 4-bromo-2,5,beta-trimethoxy-phenethylamine, a psychedelic drug
• Baby on Board
• Bank of Baroda, in India
• Band of Brothers, a television miniseries
• Bank One Ballpark (now Chase Field)
• Basketball Owl Band, pep band unit of the Rice University Marching Owl Band
• Battery operated boyfriend, euphemism for a vibrator
• The Battle of Britain
• Battle of the Bands, a competition between multiple bands
• Bayerische Oberlandbahn, a private German railway
• Beast of Burden
• Beijing Olympic Broadcasting
• Bend over boyfriend, slang term for a sexual practice
• Berlin Operating Base, the CIA station in Berlin during the Cold War
• Berner Oberland Bahn, a mountain railway in Switzerland
• Best of Breed, an award in dog shows and other settings
• B.O.B. (Big-O-Blaster), a machine in the video game Banjo-Tooie
• Blitter object, a graphics construct
• Bob-omb, a character in the Nintendo Mario video games
• Body Opponent Bag, a punching bag shaped like a human head and torso
• Bolivian boliviano (ISO 4217 code for the currency)
• Bora Bora Airport (IATA code)
• Born on sexyBread, the humans in the Marathon Trilogy computer games
• Breakout box, an electronics component
• Bug-out bag, an emergency kit

Fictional characters

• Bob (Tekken), a character in the video game series Tekken
• B.O.B., the titular character of the video game B.O.B.
• Bob the Tomato, one of the principal characters in VeggieTales
• Bob (Twin Peaks), a villain on the television show Twin Peaks
• Bob (Blackadder character), two characters in the television comedy Blackadder
• Bob (The Dresden Files), a character featured in the novels and TV show The Dresden Files
• Bob (First Comics), a "watchlizard" from the First Comics series GrimJack
• Bob the Builder
• Bob the Killer Goldfish, a character in the Earthworm Jim universe
• Silent Bob, a character in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse
• Almighty Bob, a fictional deity in Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
• Bob, one of the human characters on Sesame Street
• Bob (Heroes), a villain from the show Heroes
• Bob, one of the main characters in ReBoot
• Bob, the Jagex cat in RuneScape
• Evil Bob, a random event in RuneScape
• Bob, a character in Bubble Bobble
• Bob, a character in Weebl and Bob
• Bob, title character in the movie What About Bob?
• Bob, one of the two eponymous main characters of the sprite comic Bob and George
• Smilin' Bob, a character in commercials for Enzyte
• Bob, Agent of HYDRA, a Marvel Comics character
• Bob, a lazy cat character in the video game Animal Crossing
• Bob, a character in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody

See also

• Bobby
• Robert