Bob

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Bob or B.O.B. may refer to:

• Bob cut, a hairstyle
• Bob, a slang term in Great Britain for the shilling

Places

• Bob, West Virginia, a community in the United States
• Bob Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica

People

• Bob (given name)
• Bob (surname)

Science and technology

• Bob (physics), the weight at the end of a pendulum
• Alice and Bob, placeholder characters in cryptography and physics problems
• Blitter object, a graphics construct
• Microsoft Bob, a software product
• Hurricane Bob (disambiguation)

Books

• Almighty Bob, a fictional deity in Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
• Bob, one of the human characters on Sesame Street

Comics

• Bob (First Comics), a "watchlizard" from the First Comics series GrimJack
• Bob, a character in Weebl and Bob
• Bob, an eponymous main character of the sprite comic Bob and George
• Bob, Agent of HYDRA, a Marvel Comics villain

Video games

• B.O.B. (video game), a side-scrolling shooter by Electronic Arts
• Bob (Tekken), a character in the video game series Tekken
• Bob, a character in Bubble Bobble
• B.O.B. (Big-O-Blaster), a machine in the video game Banjo-Tooie

Film

• B.O.B. (BiO-sanitation Battalion), a robot in Disney's The Black Hole (1979)
• 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.
• Handsome Bob, a character in the film RocknRolla

Television

• Bob (TV series), a television comedy starring Bob Newhart
• Bob the Builder children's TV animation
• Baby Bob, an American sitcom
• "Battle of the Bastards", an episode of the hit series Game of Thrones

Fictional characters

• Killer BOB, a villain from the television series Twin Peaks
• Bob (Blackadder character), two characters in the television comedy Blackadder
• Bob (The Dresden Files), a character featured in the novels and TV show The Dresden Files
• Bob, one of the main characters in ReBoot
• Bob the Killer Goldfish, a character in the Earthworm Jim universe
• Smilin' Bob, a character in commercials for Enzyte
• Bob, a character in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
• Sideshow Bob, a character in the television show The Simpsons
• Bob Belcher, title character of Bob's Burgers, a cartoon on Fox
• Bob Kelso, TV series Scrubs
• Bob Duncan, the dad on Good Luck Charlie

Music

Artists

• B.o.B (musician), stage name of American rapper, guitarist and singer-songwriter Bobby Ray Simmons, Jr. (born 1988)
• BOB (band), a UK indie pop band
• The Bobs, an American a cappella group formed in the 1980s

Songs

• "Bob", a song from the album Poodle Hat by "Weird Al" Yankovic
• "B.O.B" (song), by OutKast
• "Bob", a song from the album Brighter Than Creation's Dark by the Drive-By Truckers
• "Bob", a song from the album One Hot Minute by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "Bob", a song from the album White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean by NOFX
• "Bob", a song from the album Pork Soda by Primus
• "The Bob (Medley)", a song from their self-titled album by Roxy Music

Acronyms and codes

• Aweer language, by ISO 639-3 code
• Bolivian boliviano, by ISO 4217 currency code
• Bora Bora Airport, by IATA code
• Berlin Operating Base, the CIA station in Berlin during the Cold War
• Bank One Ballpark, now Chase Field
• BOB (psychedelic), a psychedelic drug
• Bend Over Boyfriend, slang term for a sexual practice
• Buy on board, food or beverages purchased in-flight
• Bug-out bag, an evacuation kit
• Best of Biotech, a business plan competition organized by Austria Wirtschaftsservice
• Building Opportunities with Business, a non-profit organization based in Vancouver, Canada
• Bank of Baroda, in India
• Bank of Botswana, the central bank of Botswana
• Boys of Bangladesh, a network of gay men in Bangladesh
• Bayerische Oberlandbahn, a private German railway company
• Berner Oberland Bahn, a mountain railway in Switzerland
• Beijing Olympic Broadcasting

Other uses

• Bob FM, on-air brand of a number of FM radio stations in Canada and the United States
• Bob (dog), who received the Dickin Medal for bravery in the Second World War

See also

• Bob's (disambiguation)
• Rob (disambiguation)
• Robert (disambiguation)
• Bobby (disambiguation)
• Great Patriotic War (term) sometimes referred to as ВОВ in the Cyrillic alphabet (Russian: Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́, Velíkaya Otéchestvennaya voyná)