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Word: lobbers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...Value). Alluring fashion ads offer raiment ranging from the new see-through tennis dresses to maternity clothes for tennis-playing moms-to-be?along with some advice from doctors on why it is safe to play while pregnant. Also available are cute court togs for the baby ("the little lobber"). Tennis, in short, has become a billon-dollar-a-year business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Sex& Tennis | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...fought back with hardly any fight -- with lazy looping topspins and slow shots to the center when straight lines were in order, with lobs when he needed drives. King was playing up to Riggs, teasing the weakness that was his boast. She was simply playing Libber to his Lobber...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: The Sugar Daddy Won't Last All Day | 9/25/1973 | See Source »

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