Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as lopper.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who throws or hits/kicks a ball in a high arc.

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Examples

  • Murray comes back from 0-30 to 40-30 but is taken to deuce when Nishikori disguise lobs the disguise lobber.

    Andy Murray v Kei Nishikori – live! | Steve Busfield 2012

  • But in "Tynan" - a one-man show running at Studio through Feb. 6 - Goodwin plays an ostentatious genius and social whirlwind who happened to be the grenade-lobber of modern theater criticism.

    A challenging role for a complex thespian Celia Wren 2011

  • So you control a wizard who can't fight directly, and he can summon a lady Elf to stand and shoot arrows, a warrior who can take a lot of damage and can't do ranged attacks, and a lobber who can kill various things over walls that others can't, but blows up if he gets killed.

    Soulcaster, Xbox 360 Indie Game - review tenshi_a 2010

  • So you control a wizard who can't fight directly, and he can summon a lady Elf to stand and shoot arrows, a warrior who can take a lot of damage and can't do ranged attacks, and a lobber who can kill various things over walls that others can't, but blows up if he gets killed.

    Archive 2010-04-01 tenshi_a 2010

  • Juan Williams is a straight-up Republican, the worst softball lobber I've ever seen.

    Quote Of The Day 2009

  • The people throwing things, among them the plastic bottle lobber, appeared to be farther back in the retreating crowd.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • This shoulder mounted water balloon lobber comes with 100 mini water balloons for you to fill and fire at will.

    Summer = Water Bomb Time 2007

  • He moved down to the file stacks, heard “Think fast” and saw a little blue object lobbing toward him, Buzz Meeks the lobber.

    The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

  • But, realizing that he had not been on TV in two days, he did a pregame interview with slow-pitch softball lobber Katie Couric.

    www.appeal-democrat.com - News : 2010

  • Also, a sofa-sized fiberglass and copper shoe was dedicated to the journalist shoe-lobber, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, in

    Antiwar.com Original 2009

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