Bob"tail` (&?;), n. [Bob + tail.] An animal (as a horse or dog) with a short tail.

Rag, tag, and bobtail, the rabble.

Bob"tail`, a. Bobtailed. "Bobtail cur." Marryat.

BOB TAIL. A lewd woman, or one that plays with her tail;
also an impotent man, or an eunuch. Tag, rag, and bobtail;
a mob of all sorts of low people. To shift one's bob;
to move off, or go away. To bear a bob; to join in chorus
with any singers. Also a term used by the sellers of game,
for a partridge.