Hob

Hob or HOB may refer to:

• Hob: a household spirit in Northern England
• A generic term for various Dwarf-like and Elf-like magical creatures in Germanic folklore
• A devil
• The top cooking surface on a stove
• A male ferret
• A tool used in hobbing, or gear-making
• A robot-like creature in the webcomic Dresden Codak
• A stake used as a target in the game of quoits
• A Medieval masculine nickname for Robert or Aubrey
• A hobnail on a hobnailed boot
• HOB GmbH & Co. KG, an international computer company
• Head Of John - used in a medical setting to order elevation or depression

Acronyms and codes

• Hoboken-Verzeichnis, the catalogue of the compositions of Joseph Haydn
• House of Blues, a chain of music halls and restaurants
• Hemne og Orkladal Billag, a Norwegian transport company
• House Office Building, where members of the United States House of Representatives work
• Head of bed, which may be elevated or depressed to parallel level depending on patient condition or patient's liking
• Lea County Regional Airport in Hobbs, New Mexico (IATA Code: HOB)
• High Off Boresite (or HOBS), certain air-to-air missile capability
• Hang On Back filter, a type of aquarium filter.
• House of Bunch (HOB) the name of a futuristic sanctuary in Corinth, Vermont (fiction).

People with the given name Hob

• Hob Osterlund, APRN, principal investigator for COMIC (comedy in chemotherapy) study; producer of Chuckle Channel programming for hospital televisions; performer of comedy character Ivy Push, RN; freelance journalist/photographer living in Hawaii
• Hob Gadling, a fictional character from the Sandman comic book series by Neil Gaiman