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noun
1.
a small pocket just below the waistline in trousers for a watch, keys, change, etc. Compare watch pocket.
2.
a short chain or ribbon, usually with a medallion or similar ornament, attached to a watch and worn hanging from a pocket.
3.
the medallion or ornament itself.
Origin:
1645–55; origin uncertain; compare German dialect Fuppe pocket
1645–55; origin uncertain; compare German dialect Fuppe pocket
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Fob
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Example Sentences
- It bookmarks a program at the point you push one of two buttons on the device, the size of a keychain fob.
- It then tried to fob off survivors with quiet payments through a private foundation.
- Internal zipped pocket and a key fob in a pocket round out this great jacket.
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verb (used with object), fobbed, fob·bing.
Verb phrase1.
Archaic. to cheat; deceive.
2.
fob off,
a.
to cheat someone by substituting something spurious or inferior; palm off (often followed by on): He tried to fob off an inferior brand on us.
b.
to put (someone) off by deception or trickery: She fobbed us off with false promises.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English fobben; cognate with German foppen to delude; compare fob1
1350–1400; Middle English fobben; cognate with German foppen to delude; compare fob1
f.o.b.
Commerce.
free on board: without charge to the buyer for goods placed on board a carrier at the point of shipment: automobiles shipped f.o.b. Detroit.
Also, F.O.B.
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World English Dictionary
| fob2 (fɒb) | |
| —vb , fobs, fobbing, fobbed | |
| an archaic word for cheat | |
| [C15: probably from German foppen to trick] | |
| f.o.b. or commerce FOB | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| free on board | |
| FOB or commerce FOB | |
| —abbreviation for | |
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Word Origin & History
fob
1653, "small pocket for valuables," probably related to Low Ger. fobke "pocket," High Ger. fuppe "pocket." Meaning "chain attached to a watch carried in the fob" is from 1885.
EXPANDfob
"to cheat," 1583, from obsolete noun fobbe "cheat, trickster" (1393), perhaps from O.Fr. forbe "cheat." Alternative etymology holds that the word is perhaps related to Ger. foppen "to jeer at, make a fool of" (see fop); or from Ger. fuppen, einfuppen "to pocket stealthily,"
which would connect it to fob (n.). To fob (someone) off is first recorded 1597.
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Slang Dictionary
FOB definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
FOB
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