FOB

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A little pocket for a watch. Fob chain, a short watch chain worn a watch carried in the fob.

2.
v.

To beat; to maul. [Obs.]

3.
v.

To cheat; to trick; to impose on. Shak. To fob off, to shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people." Milton.

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