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BOB
Acronym
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A short way of saying "battery-operated boyfriend"; slang for a vibrator.
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A short way of saying "back-of-the-book"; refers to stamps in a catalog that are not used on mail and are displayed near the end of a catalog.
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A short way of saying "bottom of basket", often used as a reminder to empty shopping carts.
Bob
Proper noun
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A short form of the male given name Robert.
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In cryptography and physics, Bob is sometimes used as the name for the person or system that receives a message from another person or system, which is usually known as Alice.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
builder
Noun
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A builder is a person who builds things. This is most often a person who makes houses or buildings.