NOBBLE


Meaning of NOBBLE in English

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

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