FOB (fobbed, fobbing)

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Irregular inflected forms: fobbed    , fobbing   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fob mean? 

• FOB (noun)
  The noun FOB has 3 senses:

1. a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch

2. an adornment that hangs from a watch chain

3. short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest

  Familiarity information: FOB used as a noun is uncommon.

• FOB (verb)
  The verb FOB has 1 sense:

1. deceive somebody

  Familiarity information: FOB used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vest pocket to hold a pocket watch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fob; watch pocket

Hypernyms ("fob" is a kind of...):

vest pocket (a small pocket in a man's vest)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An adornment that hangs from a watch chain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("fob" is a kind of...):

adornment (a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fob; watch chain; watch guard

Hypernyms ("fob" is a kind of...):

chain (a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament)

• FOB (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fob    ... he / she / it fobs   
Past simple: fobbed   
Past participle: fobbed   
-ing form: fobbing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deceive somebody

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week

Hypernyms (to "fob" is one way to...):

cozen; deceive; delude; lead on (be false to; be dishonest with)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fob"):

snooker (fool or dupe)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

My uncle clapped his hand to his fob.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In one of my fobs there was a silver watch, and in the other a small quantity of gold in a purse.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He was dressed like any other ordinary gentleman, in a loose grey morning coat and waistcoat, and white trousers; and had his watch in his fob, and his money in his pockets: which he rattled as if he were very proud of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Out of the right fob hung a great silver chain, with a wonderful kind of engine at the bottom.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His identity had already been noised abroad, and many an elderly connoisseur plucked his long net-purse out of his fob, in order to put a few guineas upon the man who would represent the school of the past against the present.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the left fob he took out a net almost large enough for a fisherman, but contrived to open and shut like a purse, and served him for the same use: we found therein several massy pieces of yellow metal, which, if they be real gold, must be of immense value.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I took up the two officers in my hands, put them first into my coat-pockets, and then into every other pocket about me, except my two fobs, and another secret pocket, which I had no mind should be searched, wherein I had some little necessaries that were of no consequence to any but myself.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There were two pockets which we could not enter: these he called his fobs; they were two large slits cut into the top of his middle cover, but squeezed close by the pressure of his belly.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)