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Answer for the clue "Watch chain or pocket ", 3 letters:
fob

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "men's small waist pocket for valuables," of uncertain origin, probably related to Low German fobke "pocket," High German fuppe "pocket," "a dialectal word used in Livonia" [Klein]. Meaning "chain or ornament attached to a watch carried in the fob" ...

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FOB is a 1980 Obie Award -winning play by American playwright David Henry Hwang . Hwang's first play, it depicts the contrasts and conflicts between established Asian Americans and " fresh off the boat " (FOB) newcomer immigrants.

Usage examples of fob.

He noted that Barton Badging was a prim-looking gentleman who wore gold-coin cufflinks, a tie pin fashioned from a coin, and had a gold-coin watch fob dangling from a heavy gold chain stretched across his vest.

I was so pleased with what she told me that when I took leave of the company I embraced the hairdresser, and drawing a handsome gold watch from my fob I begged him to accept it as a souvenir of me.

Albert Popjoy with him as he took his watch from his fob pocket and clicked it open, examining its face briefly.

And that smoochy kind of voice, like a priest or a teacher fobbing off advice on you.

He pulled a large handkerchief from the waist of his breeks and wiped the object carefully, bringing to light the gleam of silver links and a small round fob, bearing some kind of seal.

Sebastian snapped the watchcase closed and slid it back into his fob pocket, checking in the mirror over the mantel that his demimask was affixed correctly and the soft hat covered his hair.

He is dressed in the manner one might expect from a small businessman of the respectable middle classes and wears a plain woollen weskit without a fob and chain strung across his belly.

We all carry a spare yarmulka or two in our fobs at funerals, so as Gentiles can wear them.

I was so pleased with what she told me that when I took leave of the company I embraced the hairdresser, and drawing a handsome gold watch from my fob I begged him to accept it as a souvenir of me.

Cartwright went to the green Chatwood steel door of the vault and drew his watch chain from his fob pocket with the key dangling on the end of it.

The heroin, the cut coke, the Temazepam, the dihydrocodeine he had always refused, fobbing them off with small purchases of dope.

The wealth of the whole of London seemed to be floating down towards the Easterlies in a glittering, prismatic rain of borrowed scarves, pocketed fruit, dropped fob watches, flighty fans and fine ebony canes.

Throughout the last quarter of the 1900s they provided a lot of behind-the-scenes backing for moves to fob the Third World off with ‘appropriate technologies,’ for various antiprogress, antiscience lobbies, and that kind of thing.

Throughout the last quarter of the 1900s they provided a lot of behind-the-scenes backing for moves to fob the Third World off with 'appropriate technologies,' for various antiprogress, antiscience lobbies, and that kind of thing.

I shall have to discover what tale he's fobbed my wife off with, or I shall be bowled out.