rob's









rob's


noun

  1. a male given name, form of Robert.

verb robs, robbing or robbed

  1. (tr) to take something from (someone) illegally, as by force or threat of violence
  2. to plunder (a house, shop, etc)
  3. (tr) to deprive unjustlyto be robbed of an opportunity
v.

late 12c., from Old French rober “rob, steal, pillage, ransack, rape,” from West Germanic *rauba “booty” (cf. Old High German roubon “to rob,” roub “spoil, plunder;” Old English reafian, source of the reave in bereave), from Proto-Germanic *raubon “to rob,” from PIE *reup-, *reub- “to snatch” (see rip (v.)).

Lord, hou schulde God approve þat þou robbe Petur, and gif þis robbere to Poule in þe name of Crist? [Wyclif, c.1380]

To rob the cradle is attested from 1864 in reference to drafting young men in the American Civil War; by 1949 in reference to seductions or romantic relationships with younger persons. Related: Robbed; robbing.

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