bob up

English

Verb

bob up (third-person singular simple present bobs up, present participle bobbing up, simple past and past participle bobbed up)

1. (intransitive) To rise to the surface; to ascend to the surface and remain floating there.
   • 2011, Curt Iles, A Spent Bullet: Louisiana 1941, page 125:

     He bobbed up and flailed toward the near bank. The weight of his boots and soaked uniform kept pulling him under.