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Swindle: Br. slang
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nobble
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize , swindle , rook , goldbrick , diddle , bunco , defraud , scam , mulct ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context British Australia slang English) To injure or obstruct intentionally; batter. 2 (context British slang English) To gain influence by corrupt means or intimidation. 3 (context British slang English) To steal.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Good fun, anyway - but oh dear, people do nobble one, don't they? ▪ I can't say that I blame George Washington, or, my father who nobbled our London one by pruning it. ▪ Jack Butler really didn't like the idea that he had been ...
Usage examples of nobble.
Cass, who had blown him home after the nobbling of the Imp. She was defiantly sounding her horn as the race ended.
He just sat down on the bed next to me and put his elbows on his knees and looked down at the carpet between his legs where there was a little red piece of Lego with eight nobbles on.