fob

1. 1.

   deceive somebody

   “We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week”

   Synonymsflim-flamplay a joke onplay trickstrickfoxpull a fast one onplay a trick on

   Broaderdeceive

   Narrowersnooker

Other forms of fob

plural

fobs·

past tense or participle

fobbed

present participle

fobbing

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fob

What does fob mean?

fob means "a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fob?

fob has 1 syllable: fob. In IPA it is /ˈfɔb/.

What is another word for fob?

Close synonyms include watch pocket, watch chain, watch guard, flim-flam, play a joke on. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fob a common word?

fob is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.