transcription, транскрипция: [ nɒb(ə)l ]
( nobbles, nobbling, nobbled)
1.
If someone nobbles an important group of people such as a committee, they offer them money or threaten them in order to make them do something. ( BRIT INFORMAL )
The trial was stopped before Christmas after allegations of attempts to nobble the jury...
VERB : V n
2.
If someone nobbles a racehorse, they deliberately harm it, often using drugs, in order to prevent it from winning a race. ( BRIT INFORMAL )
...the drug used to nobble two horses at Doncaster.
VERB : V n
3.
If someone nobbles your plans or chances of succeeding, they prevent you from achieving what you want. ( BRIT INFORMAL )
His opportunity to re-establish himself had been nobbled by the manager’s tactics.
VERB : V n