lob

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of LOB

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm <he lightly lobbed the errant ball over the fence to the waiting schoolboy>

Synonyms cast, catapult, chuck, dash, fire, fling, heave, hurl, hurtle, launch, lob, loft, peg, pelt, pitch, sling, toss

Related Words bowl, dart, flip, gun, hook, pass, roll, shoot; buck, eject, impel, precipitate, project, propel, rifle, thrust

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