Bobby

//ˈbɒbi// name, noun, slang

name, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A police officer. Australia, British, Ireland, slang

    "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?"

  2. 2
    A penis. Scotland, slang
  3. 3
    an informal term for a British policeman wordnet
  4. 4
    A railway signaller. Australia, British, Ireland, slang
  5. 5
    Cocaine. Multicultural-London-English

    "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"

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  1. 6
    A calf that is slaughtered in its first month, usually because it has no mother or because it is undersized or otherwise defective.

    "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"

  2. 7
    A banana that is extra small in size.

    "My kids like bobby bananas, but they're in plastic."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A diminutive of the male given name Robert.

    "It was a real irritation to Robert's parents to hear Adeline call him Bobby. They tried to intimate their disapproval by pronouncing his name very distinctly when they addressed him."

  2. 2
    A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.

Example

More examples

"Bobby McFerrin and Yo-yo Ma played some famous duets."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the given name of Sir Robert Peel, who established London’s police force.

Etymology 2

From Bob + -y.

Related phrases

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.