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Chris -- 2025-05-10
This is inspired by the recent discussion of apple bobbing under the entry for duck/dunk. It’s the apple that’s bobbling while you bob for it, but close enough. 100+ghits:
... Halloween growing up and passing on the fun traditions of dressing up in costume, bobbling for apples (germs and all) and trick or treating.
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The games were fish toss and bobbling for apples.
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You can also take a large galvanized bucket and play bobbling for apples…
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“Bopping for apples” also gets 84 raw hits. Maybe people are thinking of the squirming that the non-submerged parts of a bobber’s body do while bobbing. Or maybe speakers are just anticipating that unvoiced stop in “apples.”
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