fob off

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fob off (third-person singular simple present fobs off, present participle fobbing off, simple past and past participle fobbed off)

  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.

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  • Robert Hunter, Charles Morris, editors (1897), Universal Dictionary of the English Language, volume 2, page 2146