Words & TermsWork, bush and rural life
emu bob
A bent-over search for small objects on the ground; by extension, to move along picking things up.
In a sentence
We did an emu bob across the oval looking for the missing keys.
Where it came from
The Australian National Dictionary Centre records emu bob as an Australian expression from the twentieth century, with search and litter-picking senses.
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established