Function: transitive verb
Date: 1597
1 : to put off with a trick, excuse, or inferior substitute
2 : to pass or offer (something spurious) as genuine
3 : to put aside <now fob off what once they would have welcomed eagerly ― Walter Lippmann>
Function: transitive verb
Date: 1597
1 : to put off with a trick, excuse, or inferior substitute
2 : to pass or offer (something spurious) as genuine
3 : to put aside <now fob off what once they would have welcomed eagerly ― Walter Lippmann>
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012