Usually means: Deceived or tricked someone cleverly.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. fobbed: Merriam-Webster
  2. fobbed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fobbed: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fobbed: Vocabulary.com
  5. fobbed: Wordnik
  6. fobbed: Wiktionary
  7. Fobbed, fobbed: Dictionary.com
  8. Fobbed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Fobbed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. fobbed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. fobbed: FreeDictionary.org
  12. fobbed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fobbed: Legal dictionary
  2. fobbed: Financial dictionary

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  1. fobbed: Idioms

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  1. fobbed: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (FOB)

noun:  A little pocket near the waistline of a pair of trousers or in a waistcoat or vest to hold money or valuables, especially a pocket watch.
noun:  A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch.
noun:  (see usage notes) A small ornament attached to such a chain.
noun:  A hand-held electronic device that can be used as a remote control or as a key to unlock motor cars, doors, etc., and thus, modern car keys.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To cheat, to deceive, to trick, to take in, to impose upon someone.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To beat; to maul.
adjective:  (Incoterm) Alternative letter-case form of FOB (“free on board”)
adjective:  (Incoterm) Initialism of free on board. [(Incoterm) Without charge to the purchaser for delivery on board a carrier (originally a ship), at a specified location or point.]
adjective:  (slang) Initialism of fresh off the boat. [(idiomatic, usually derogatory) Newly arrived from a foreign place, especially as an immigrant who is still unfamiliar with the customs and language of their new environment.]
noun:  (military) Initialism of forward operating base.
noun:  Initialism of flash of brilliance.
noun:  Initialism of freedom of belief.
noun:  (US, politics) Initialism of friend of Bill: a supporter of Bill Clinton.
noun:  (India) Initialism of foot overbridge: a pedestrian overpass.
noun:  (sometimes derogatory) Initialism of fresh off the boat, a recent immigrant.
noun:  (pathology) Abbreviation of fecal occult blood. [(gastroenterology, hematology) The presence of blood in the feces that is not visibly apparent.]
noun:  (music) Initialism of Fall Out Boy, an American pop-punk band formed in Chicago.
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