Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (drugs, also Bob) cannabis.

1986		R.G. Barrett Real Thing 173: You’re up here moving a bit of ‘Bob Hope’, eh?
1990		Tupper & Wortley Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Bob Hope. 1. Drugs. Rhyming slang for ‘dope’.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 22/2: Bob Hope n. 1 marijuana.
2002		D. Shaw ‘Dead Beard’ at www.asstr.org 🌐 She’d given the peelers the good word on where her old pot and pan was stashing his stocks of bob hope.
2003		B. Dark Dirty Cockney Rhy. Sl. 26: I’ve been smoking Bob all afternoon.
2011		S. Pryjmachuk Mental Health Nursing 378: Some are joke titles or plays on words – Mary Jane (marijuana), wacky baccy, Bobby Moore (draw), Bob Hope (dope).

2. (Aus.) soap.

1967		‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxii 7/1: bob hope: Soap.
1968		J. Alard He who Shoots Last 153: In his hurry ta git outa da bath, da poor coot slips on da Bob Hope and breaks his gregory.
1983		J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 9: ‘They hide all their spare change in their bathrooms under the bob hope’.
1990		Tupper & Wortley Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Bob Hope. 2. Rhyming slang for soap.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 22/2: Bob Hope n. 2 soap.
2002		Pete’s Aussie Sl. Home Page 🌐 Bob Hope: soap.

3. (UK drugs) crack cocaine.

1995

I. Rankin Let It Bleed 213: ‘How long have you been on the Bob Hope, Kirstie?’ ‘You mean the Merry?’ [...] ‘Merry Mac, crack,’ he explained.