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fob

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES fob watch EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Confronted in his domestic environment, he would find it more difficult to fob her off. ▪ Convention demanded that a woman must skirt around the truth, fobbing off a man while leading ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch [syn: watch pocket ] an adornment that hangs from a watch chain short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest [syn: watch chain , watch guard ] [also: fobbing , fobbed ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fob \Fob\ (f[o^]b), n. [Cf. Prov. G. fuppe pocket.] A little pocket for a watch; -- callled also a watch pocket . a short chain or ribbon attached to a pocket watch, usually worn hanging out of the watch pocket, and used to conveniently remove the watch ...

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.