Bob
Bob is a common nickname for the given name Robert.
Bob may also refer to:
Science and technology
- Bob (physics), the weight at the end of a pendulum
- Hurricane Bob, first major hurricane of the 1991 Atlantic hurricane season
- Alice and Bob, placeholder characters in cryptography and physics problems
- Breakout box, a piece of electronics equipment used to split components or individual leads in a connector
Music
- B.o.B, Bobby Ray Simmons, Jr., American rapper, guitarist and singer-songwriter
- BOB (band), a UK indie pop band
- "Bob" (song), a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic from the album Poodle Hat
- "B.O.B." (song), a song by OutKast
- "Bob", a song by the Drive-By Truckers from the album Brighter Than Creation's Dark
- "Bob", a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from the album One Hot Minute
- "Bob", a song by NOFX from the album White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean
- "Bob", a song by Primus from the album Pork Soda
Companies and organizations
Video games and computers
- B.O.B. (video game), a side-scrolling shooter by Electronic Arts
- Bob (Tekken), a character in the video game series Tekken
- Bob, the Jagex cat in RuneScape
- Evil Bob, a random event in RuneScape
- Bob, a character in Bubble Bobble
- Bob, a character in the video game Animal Crossing
- Microsoft Bob, a software product
- B.O.B. (Big-O-Blaster), a machine in the video game Banjo-Tooie
- Blitter object, a graphics construct
- Born on Board, the humans in the Marathon Trilogy computer games
- Bob Page, a character from the video game Deus Ex
Comics
Television
Film
- Silent Bob, a character in several Kevin Smith films, including Dogma and Chasing Amy
- B.O.B. (Benzoate Ostylezene Bicarbonate), gelatinous creature in the film Monsters vs Aliens
- Bob, title character in the movie What About Bob?
- Planet Bob, also known as New Earth, in the film Titan A.E.
Books
People
- Brendan O'Brien, Irish journalist
- J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, figurehead of the satirical Church of the SubGenius
- Bob Olin, American world champion light heavyweight boxer
- Ioan Bob, Bishop of Făgăraş of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church from 1783 to 1830
Military
Other uses
- Bob cut, a hairstyle
- Bob, a slang term in Great Britain for the shilling
- Bob campaign, a campaign promoting designated driving
- Rob (disambiguation)
- BOB (psychedelic), a psychedelic drug
- Baby on Board
- Bank One Ballpark, now Chase Field
- Basketball Owl Band, pep band unit of the Rice University Marching Owl Band
- Battle of bands, a competition between multiple bands
- Bayerische Oberlandbahn, a private German railway
- Beast of burden (disambiguation)
- Beijing Olympic Broadcasting
- Bend Over Boyfriend, slang term for a sexual practice
- Berner Oberland Bahn, a mountain railway in Switzerland
- Best of Biotech, an international life science business plan competition organized by Austria Wirtschaftsservice
- Best of Breed, an award in dog shows and other settings
- Big Orange Ball, military slang for the Sun
- Body Opponent Bag, a punching bag shaped like a human head and torso
- BOB, ISO 4217 currency code for the Bolivian boliviano currency
- BOB, IATA code for Bora Bora Airport
- Bug-out bag, an emergency kit
- Buy on board
See also
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