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lobtail
[
lob
-teyl]
WORD ORIGIN
verb (used without object)
(of a whale) to slap the flukes against the surface of the water.
Origin of
lobtail
1865–70
(as gerund); apparently
lob
1
in sense “to move heavily” +
tail
1
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