The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word BOB
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What does BOB mean?
BOB noun- A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
- A curtsy.
- A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
- To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- To curtsy.
- To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- A bob haircut.
- Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it
- The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
- The docked tail of a horse.
- A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
- The short runner of a sled.
- A bobsleigh.
- A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
- A working beam in a steam engine.
- A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
- A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
- A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
- The refrain of a song.
- A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
- To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
- To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop
- To bobsleigh.
- (Kenya) A shilling.
- A 10-cent coin.
- An unspecified amount of money.
- A dish made of small pieces of meat, with or without vegetables, which are skewered on a wooden or metal stick and roasted in an oven or over an open fire.
- A crystal structure consisting of a central spine (the shish) and disks or lumps growing out from it (the kebab).
- A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.