Fob

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small pocket at the front waistline of a man's trousers or in the front of a vest, used especially to hold a watch.
  • n. A short chain or ribbon attached to a pocket watch and worn hanging in front of the vest or waist.
  • n. An ornament or seal attached to such a chain or ribbon.
  • v. Archaic To cheat or deceive (another).
  • phrasal-verb. fob off To dispose of (goods) by fraud or deception; palm off: fobbed off the zircon as a diamond.
  • phrasal-verb. fob off To put off or appease by deceitful or evasive means: needed help but was fobbed off with promises.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A little pocket near the waistline of a pair of trousers or in a waistcoat or vest to hold a pocketwatch; a watch pocket.
  • n. A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch.
  • n. A small ornament attached to such a chain. (See Usage Notes below)
  • n. A hand-held remote control device used to lock/unlock motor cars etc.
  • v. To cheat, to trick, to take in, to impose upon someone.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A little pocket for a watch; -- callled also a watch pocket.
  • n. a short chain or ribbon attached to a pocket watch, usually worn hanging out of the watch pocket, and used to conveniently remove the watch from the watch pocket.
  • v. To beat; to maul.
  • v. To cheat; to trick; to impose on.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cheat; trick; impose upon.
  • To beat; maltreat.
  • To pass off by a false representation; dispose of by deception: as, to fob off a worthless article on a customer.
  • n. A tap on the shoulder, as from a bailiff.
  • n. A cheat.
  • n. A little pocket made in the waist-band of men's breeches or trousers as a receptacle for a watch.
  • n. A watch-chain, or ribbon with buckle and seals or the like, such as is worn appended to the watch and hanging from the fob.
  • To put into a fob; pocket; get possession of.
  • To breathe hard or with heaving sides; gasp from violent running.
  • n. Froth or foam.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest
  • n. an adornment that hangs from a watch chain
  • v. deceive somebody
  • n. a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch
  • Verb Form
    fobbed    fobbing    fobs   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    chain    adornment    vest pocket   
    Cross Reference
    to fob off   
    Variant
    fobbing    fobbed    watch pocket   
    Form
    fob off   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    beat    maul    cheat    trick    pocket    chain    deceive   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aube    daub    daube    gaub   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    heur    locket    wristwatch    jut    button-type    elbowchair    scarfpin    speed-of-light    high-calorie    pajama