bobby

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒbi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑbi/

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From the given name of Sir Robert Peel, who established London’s police force.[1]

bobby (plural bobbies)

1. (British, Ireland, Australia, slang) A police officer.
   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     If I am wrong, and if Lessingham’s wrong, how do you explain his extraordinary insistence on taking it inside the cab with him, which the bobby describes?

2. (British, Ireland, Australia, slang) A railway signaller.

• See also Thesaurus:police officer

• peeler

bobby (plural bobbies)

1. (Scotland, slang) A penis.
2. (MLE) Cocaine.
   • 2017, “Next Up?”, Digga D (lyrics), performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y):

     Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin
     They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody
     Hold that properly when I bang that dotty
     I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby
     

3. A calf that is slaughtered in its first month, usually because it has no mother or because it is undersized or otherwise defective.
   • 1970, Great Britain. Milk Marketing Board. Breeding and Production Organization, Report of the Breeding and Production Organization:

     The already low proportion of Friesian and Hereford Friesian cross calves sold as bobbies declined to almost insignificant proportions and there was a very steep drop in the proportion of bobby calves in the other breeds

   • 2002, John Moran, Calf Rearing: A Practical Guide, →ISBN, page 44:

     The following is the Victorian code of practice as it refers to the welfare of bobby calves.

   • 2004, Primary Industries Standing Committee, Cattle, →ISBN, page 21:

     All bobby calves must be fed as close as possible to, and at least within 6 hours of, the time of transportation.

4. A banana that is extra small in size.
   • 2017 June 14, Sarah Catherall, “I tried to live plastic free for a week and it's impossible”, in The Press:

     My kids like bobby bananas, but they're in plastic.