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• bobby
  bobby

  noun

  a policeman.
• Bobby
  Bobby

  noun

  a first name, often a form of Robert or Roberta.

bobby

¹ American  

[bob-ee] / ˈbɒb i /

noun

British Informal.

• bobbies
  plural

1. a policeman.

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Bobby ² American  

[bob-ee] / ˈbɒb i /

Or Bobbie

noun

1. a first name, often a form of Robert or Roberta.

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bobby British  

/ ˈbɒbɪ /

noun

1. informal a British policeman

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• bobbies
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of bobby

1835–45; special use of Bobby, for Sir Robert Peel, who set up the Metropolitan Police system of London in 1828

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Example Sentences

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Scrappy Marie from Glasgow was edged out by Lulu, with her chipmunk smile, sculpted hair and bobby socks.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025

But Schwartz told me that he sees even this kind of damage most often when people use bobby pins or small spatulas to clean their ears.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2023

“It’s hard to believe there’s bobby pins, a cap and a full head of her own hair under the wig,” McDonald said as he pointed to a photograph of LuPone wearing it.

From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2022

As for making yourself unpopular, you might as well show up to a university lecture wearing Christopher Robin shorts and white bobby socks as be accused of anthropomorphism.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022

She wore an actual, well, skirt, not one of those short-short ones, and what might have been bobby socks, and looked as though she’d just walked out of my grandparents’ Brooks Brothers catalog.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

Bobby is a yes-man extraordinaire, telling Dina exactly what she wants to hear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

And then, of course, the conversation must turn to Sir Bobby Charlton, who survived the Munich Air Disaster with Manchester United in 1958 to become arguably England's most famous footballer of his era.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

You know, Bobby Kennedy, all of his work —

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

Bobby Pulido: I was a political science major in college.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

Bobby was using a form of chess notation that described the movement of the pieces to various squares.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

More than 10,000 police officers will be on duty Monday, with London bobbies supplemented by reinforcements from all of Britain’s 43 police forces.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2022

They’re happier and sharper, and the rooftop concert crackles, down to McCartney ridiculing the bobbies who shut them down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2021

So, for many parties the promise of more bobbies on the beat is a popular one.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2017

Rather than stopping the prank, the bobbies simply insisted the Americans don life jackets and be accompanied by a police launch.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2016

With the statues in the square, and St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, and the bobbies, and the sparrows, and the hacks; and I can’t tell you what I felt like.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson

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