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Verb: nobble nóbul Usage: Brit
- Deprive of by deceit
- victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick [N. Amer], diddle, bunco [N. Amer], defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle [N. Amer], short-change, con, victimise [Brit], grift [N. Amer], ream [N. Amer] - Make off with belongings of others
- pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch [Brit], abstract, snarf [N. Amer], swipe, hook, sneak, filch, lift, nick [Brit] - Take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
- kidnap, abduct, snatch - Disable by drugging
"nobble the race horses" - Speak to someone
- address, accost, come up to
Sounds like: knobble Derived forms: nobbled, nobbles, nobbling Type of: cheat, chisel, come, come up, disable, disenable, incapacitate, rip off, seize, steal Encyclopedia: Nobble |