Fob

Definition: Fob

Fob

Noun

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.

Verb

1. Deceive somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fob" was first used: sometime around 1375. (references)

Economics

Shipping

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Fob

Receptacle

Pocket, pouch, fob, sheath, scabbard, socket, bag, sac, sack, saccule, wallet, cardcase, scrip, poke, knit, knapsack, haversack, sachel, satchel, reticule, budget, net; ditty bag, ditty box; housewife, hussif; saddlebags; portfolio; quiver; (magazine).

Crosswords: Fob

Albanian (phobe), Portuguese (free on board), Swedish (f.o.b., free on board).

Fröken Fob (1923)

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Books

• Fob and Other Plays (reference)

• Governor Fob James: His Nineteen Forty-Four Victory, His Incredible Story (reference)

• Remissvaren pêa FOB 90-kommissionens fèorslag (reference)

• The Key Fob (reference)

• The Treaties of Seventeen Seventy Eight: Proceedings of French Treaties 1774-1792 (Louis XVI and United States Treaties Fob. 7, 1778) (reference)

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Periodicals

• Inland Fob Price Summary (reference)

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High Tech

• Blue Ink Cartridge Fob Jetpaperthinkjet Quietjet Quietjet+ (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Marius, for his part, grasped the pistol which was in his right fob pocket, took it out, and cocked it.

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

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Business

The cost for this service is 1% of the FOB value. (references)

All calculations are based on FOB - US$ currency and constant values. (references)

Or, you may sell to retailers at higher than your regular FOB prices. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

In general, consumers pay between 80 percent and 120 percent above the FOB price of imports. (references)

Guinea

Businesses are responsible for a 2% (fob value) registration tax on such imported equipment. (references)

Hong Kong

If possible, quote in metric, on a deliverable basis to Hong Kong (i.e. CIF or C&F rather than FOB). (references)

Political Economy

PERU

The importer must pay up to one percent of the FOB value of the goods to cover the cost of the inspection. (references)

NICARAGUA

All exporters receive tax benefit certificates equivalent to 1.5 percent of the FOB value of the exported goods. (references)

EL SALVADOR

El Salvador offers a six percent rebate to exporters of non-traditional goods based on the FOB value of the export. (references)

Trade

Colombia

The maximum coverage is 85 percent of the equipment FOB price. (references)

Argentina

Exporters must apply the CF to the FOB value when shipping goods. (references)

Haiti

Tariff rates are levied on the FOB or CIF value of the goods at the port of entry. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "fob": Fob chain ♦ fob off ♦ fob off smth. on smb. ♦ fob smb. off ♦ fob smb. off with a false coin ♦ To fob off. Additional references.

Beginning with "fob": fob-watch.

Ending with "fob": key-fob.

Albanian

zinxhir sahati, xhep sahati (watch pocket), medalion (dog tag, locket, medallion, roundel), mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, besot, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, diddle, do, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, juggle, lead on, mislead, mump, nobble, overreach, palter, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride), mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick), hedh (aim, cast, cheat, chuck, dart, dash, diddle, discard, dispose of, down-load, drop, evade, flash, fling, flip, fob off, have, heave, hose, hurl, land, launch, pitch, pour out, project, push, rain, release, scrap, send, set down, sink, sling, spill, sprinkle, strew, swing, tap, throw, throw away, throw down, throw over, toss, touch off, transfer, winnow). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), ‏جيب الساعة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

украшение на края на ланец, ланец (chain), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim), изигравам (bamboozle, cheat, con, diddle, do smb., hoodwink, let in, milk, outwit, play out, prey, sell, skin, skunk, suck in, trepan, trick, trim). (various references)

Chinese 

表袋. (various references)

Czech

využít (avail oneself of, embrace, exploit, grasp, suck, tap, utilize), odbýt (brush off, dismiss, gloss over, polish off, post away, put off, rattle, repel, snub), kapsièka na hodinky. (various references)

Danish

leveres af medlemmerne fob (placed in a fob forward position). (various references)

Dutch

geleverd in het fob-stadium (placed in a fob forward position). (various references)

French

gousset. (various references)

German

uhrkette (watch chain), anhängsel (accessory matter, addition, appendage, charm, hanger-on, pendant, sideissue, sideshow, tag), abspeisen (to fob). (various references)

Greek 

κορδέλλα ωρολογιού, μικρή άλυσοσ, πασάρω (foist), τσεπάκι παντελωνιού. (various references)

Hebrew 

לרמות (bamboozle, cheat, deceit, deceive, dupe, fool, hoodwnk, humbug, shortchange, sting, swindle, take for a ride, take in). (various references)

Hungarian

órazseb (watch pocket), költségmentesen hajóra rakva. (various references)

Italian

imbrogliare (cheat, cozen, diddle, do, embroil, entangle, entrap, fool, garble, get confused, get entangled, get tangled, hocus, mix up, mystify, overreach, rook, sell, spoof, swindle, tangle, trick). (various references)

Manx

poageyr ooreyder. (various references)

Pig Latin

obfay.(various references)

Portuguese

posto livre a bordo, meter no bolso, lograr (bilk, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cod, cozen, deceive, diddle, dupe, fool, fox, gammon, gouge, gyp, inveigle, jockey, let in, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, put it over, spoof, succeed, trick), enganar (abuse, avoid, bamboozle, befool, beguile, belie, blind, bluff, cheat, chisel, chouse, cod, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, double, double-cross, duck, dupe, err, fake, falsify, finesse, flimflam, foist, fool, fox, gag, gammon, gouge, green, gull, gyp, ha, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hum, humbug, impose, inveigle, jink, jockey, juggle, lace, lie, lurch, mislead, mock, mystify, out-jockey, overreach, palm, rip off, skin, sklent, spoof, take in, trepan, trick, victimize, wangle, wile), corrente de relógio (watch-chain). (various references)

Romanian

trage pe sfoarã (bilk, chisel, con, diddle, do, do brown, do the dirty, double cross, fool, Fox, gammon, impose, kid, let in, nobble, take in, trick, wangle), pune în buzunar, lãnţişor de ceas, buzunar mic (pocket), buzunar (holster, pocket, poke), înşelãtorie (cunning, deception, delusion, do, dodgery, double dealing, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, guile, guilefulness, hanky panky, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, racket, ramp, take in). (various references)

Russian 

фоб (f.o.b., free on board), трюк (gimmick, prank, stunt, trick, wheeze), кармашек (pocket), обманывать (befool, beguile, bilk, cheat, deceive, deceiving, defraud, delude, disappoint, do, double cross, flimflam, fool into thinking, gag, gull, hocus, hoodwink, impose, jockey, juggle, kid, mump, practise deceit, practise deception, prey, pull a fast one, swindle, victimize), надувать (bamboozle, chisel, codfish, cozen, distend, finagle, inflate, jockey, queer, stiffed, stiffs, swell). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

privezak (appendage, tag), nasamariti (befool, deceive, dupe), lanac za sat (watch chain), džepčić za sat. (various references)

Spanish

faltriquera de reloj, engañar (bamboozle, be deceptive, befool, beguile, belie, betray, bilk, bite, bluff, buffalo, cheat, cheat on, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, delude, do a room, double cross, dupe, fool, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, kill, mislead, mystify, outsmart, pull a fast one, put across, put off, put over, put upon, spoof, stay, swindle, take in, trick, while away), apartar (abduce, alienate, allure, avert, deviate, distract, divert, divide, draw aside, draw away, draw off, head off, hold off, keep apart, look away, lure away, move aside, move away, move over, push away, refract, separate, set aside, shut off, stave off, take away, throw aside, to deviate, turn aside, turn away). (various references)

Swedish

klockkedja (watch chain), klockficka. (various references)

Thai

หลอกลวง (คำโบรา�"). (various references)

Turkish

yutturmak (con, deceive, diddle, dish out, fob off smth. on smb., foist, palm off, plant, put across, put off, put over, string), saat cebi (watch pocket), kazıklamak (bunco, cheat, chisel, clip, do smb. brown, fleece, fob smb. off, gouge, have smb. on, jew, Nick, overcharge, put it on, put it over on, rook, rush, sell, skin, soak, sting, stuff smb., take for a ride), köstek (Albert, albert chain, clog, fetter, fob chain, gyve, hobble, lanyard, shackle, sprag, tether, watch chain), hile ile satmak (fob off smth. on smb., hustle), güvertede teslim. (various references)

Ukrainian

кишенька для годинника, ошукувати (chouse, rook). (various references)

Vietnamese 

đút túi. (various references)

forbe. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fob": fobbed, fobbing, fobs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fob" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Afolbi, eob, faba, Fabc, fabi, fabt, fasb, fawb, fb, fbo, fboa, fbr, fco, feba, ffo, fiba, Fibi, fibo, fibu, fiby, flb, flob, foa, foab, fobb, fobd, fobe, fobi, foby, foeb, fof, foi, foib, foj, fok, Folb, foo, foq, forb, fou, fov, fow, foz, frob, fso, ftof, fube, furb, fwo, fyb, Fyba, Ufb, Uforb, vob. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bo, of.

+1 letter: boff, fobs, forb.

+2 letters: befog, boffo, boffs, buffo, forbs, forby.

+3 letters: befogs, befool, before, befoul, behoof, bifold, biform, boffed, boffin, boffos, botfly, bouffe, bowfin, boxful, buffos, confab, flyboy, fobbed, fogbow, foible, forbad, forbid, forbye, foreby, ruboff, sobful.

+4 letters: batfowl, beefalo, befools, befouls, bifocal, bigfoot, blowfly, blowoff, boatful, boffing, boffins, boffola, boiloff, bonfire, bookful, bouffes, bowfins, bowlful, boxfish, boxfuls, buffalo, buffoon, confabs, feedbox, fibroid, fibroin, fibroma, fibrous, firebox, flyblow, flyboat, flyboys, fobbing, fogbows, foibles, footboy, forbade, forbear, forbids, forbode, forbore, forebay, forebye, lobefin, offbeat, ruboffs, webfoot, zombify.