FOBBED

FOB

trick, play a joke on, play tricks, flim-flam, fob, fox, pull a fast one on, play a trick on

(verb) deceive somebody; “We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

fobbed

simple past tense and past participle of fob

Source: Wiktionary


FOB

Fob, n. Etym: [Cf.Prov. G. fuppe pocket.]

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

Fob, v.t. [imp. & p. p. Fobbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fobbing.] Etym: [Cf.Fop.]

1. To beat; to maul. [Obs.]

2. 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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