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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Fob

Fōb, n.

noun

[Prov. Ger. fuppe.]

  1. A little pocket for a watch.
  2. A tap or slight blow. [Obs.] Shak.

Fŏb, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. FOBBED; p. pr. & vb. n. FOBBING.] [Ger. foppen. Cf. FOP.]

  1. To beat; to maul. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
  2. To cheat; to trick; to impose on.

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.