de-bobble

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Verb

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de-bobble (third-person singular simple present de-bobbles, present participle de-bobbling, simple past and past participle de-bobbled)

  1. (UK) Alternative form of debobble
    • 2009, Jill Mansell, Rumour has it, page 276:
      All they'd have to do is give me a hand with the de-bobbling.
    • 2012, Amy Jenkins, Funny Valentine, →ISBN:
      Close up they look very bobbly. They need to be de-bobbled.
    • 2013, Richard Wilson, Those Were the Days ... My Arse!, →ISBN:
      I understand why it happens but my advice is – just refuse to recognise the court; don't get involved with fancy dress at all; don't go to the party, de-bobble a jumper instead, anything.