slang. [Origin unknown; in OF. bobe was a coin, apparently about 11/2 pence (deniers) of the 14th c.: see Godef. But its survival in English slang is very unlikely.] A shilling.
1812. J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., Bob, or Bobstick, a shilling.
1837. Dickens, Pickw. (1847), 351/2. Will you take three bob?
1840. T. Hook, Fitzherbert, II. vi. 150. I haven’t a bob to pay for the hire of these skates.
1864. Athenæum, 558/3. ‘Bob’ is thought to have first distinguished the shilling in Sir Robert Walpole’s time.
Bob sb.9, var. of BUB, Obs., storm, gust.
