palm off

1. 1.

   sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive

   Synonymsfoist offfob off

   Broadersell

   crime · commerce

Questions about palm off

What does palm off mean?

palm off means "sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive".

What is another word for palm off?

Close synonyms include foist off, fob off. 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 palm off a common word?

palm off 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.