Definitions for fobs

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fobs FOBS

Spelling: [fob]

IPA: /fɒb/

Fobs is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in fobs (bfos).

Definitions for fobs

noun

1. a small pocket just below the waistline in trousers for a watch, keys, change, etc. Compare watch pocket.
2. a short chain or ribbon, usually with a medallion or similar ornament, attached to a watch and worn hanging from a pocket.
3. the medallion or ornament itself.

Verb phrases

1. fob off, to cheat someone by substituting something spurious or inferior; palm off (often followed by on): to put (someone) off by deception or trickery:

verb (used with object)

1. Archaic. to cheat; deceive.

Origin of fobs

1645-55; origin uncertain; compare German dialect Fuppe pocket

Examples for fobs

Don't our liners fetch over, every trip, fellers that cut and run from England, with their FOBS filled with other men's money?

He passed on to his FOBS, explored the first, returned to the second.

FOBS: small pockets in the waistband of trousers to receive a watch.

Pox take the Tailors for making the FOBS so deep and narrow!

He wore bits and stirrups as pins and FOBS, owned a few horses, and "talked horse" continually.

My friend, Jack-boots, now pulls out a bull's-eye watch with two FOBS, and tells the time with a sort of sulky satisfaction.

But so far from sleep was I, that I could hear their watches ticking in their FOBS.

He or she, with lazy, vague, and windy legislation, FOBS the lawmaking off on somebody we elect to execute laws.

There were two pockets which we could not enter: these he called his FOBS.

They divine purses in pockets, they scent out watches in FOBS.