Meaning

2 senses

  1. (informal, transitive)To use lies, excuses, or deceit to satisfy (someone); to deceitfully appease someone by giving something that is spurious or inferior from what was wanted or expected.

    When I phoned up, I was fobbed off with a string of excuses.

  2. (informal, transitive)To fraudulently dispose of (goods).

    He fobbed off the forgery as genuine.

    abwimmeln

More definitions
  • sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive

Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
to put off by evasion:

Forms

fobs off, fobbing off, fobbed off, fobbed off
Base formfob off · to fob off
3rd person singularfobs off
Present participlefobbing off
Past simplefobbed off
Past participlefobbed off

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfob off
he, she, itfobs off

Past simpleLesson

all personsfobbed off

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave fobbed off
he, she, ithas fobbed off

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill fob off

Synonyms

5 synonyms
to fraudulently dispose of:foistpass offpalm offpawn off
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
foamfobfocalfocusB2
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