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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fob \Fob\, v.t. [imp. & p. p. {Fobbed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Fobbing}.] [Cf.Fop.]
1. To beat to maul. [Obs.]
2. To cheat; to trick; to impose on --Shak.
{To fob off}, to shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to
delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could
prostrate and fob off the right of the people." --Milton.
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