pawn 1  (pôn)  n.
pawn offTo dispose or get rid of deceptively: tried to pawn off the fake gemstone as a diamond. [Middle English paun, from Old French pan, of Germanic origin .] pawn'a·ble adj., pawn'age n., pawn'er (pô'nər), paw'nor' (-nôr') n. |
pawn off
Dispose of by deception, as in They tried to pawn off a rebuilt computer as new. This expression may have originated as a corruption of palm off, although it was also put as pawn upon in the 1700s, when it originated.