0 past simple and past participle of bobble
1 If a piece of clothing or material bobbles, it develops small balls of threads on its surface:
2 to drop or almost drop a ball that you are trying to catch or stop:
The low-techs those who were bobbled soon after the original invention of bobbles have roughly late-20th-century technology.
He also had a nine yard punt during the game and bobbled a snap on another that lead to a turnover on downs.
Indeed, those who were bobbled at slightly different times leading up to the singularity, have vastly different technology levels.
He broke from post 18 and bobbled while drifting out but moved up to sixth right behind the leaders as they passed the grandstand for the first time.