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  • noun Plural form of fob.

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Examples

  • Originally made by Austrian watchmakers as decorative pocket watch chain fobs or as cufflinks, these miniature pinfire pistols are now prized collector's items.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • There were two pockets which we could not enter: these he called his fobs; they were two large slits cut into the top of his middle cover, but squeezed close by the pressure of his belly.

    Gulliver's Travels 1896

  • There were two pockets which we could not enter: these he called his fobs; they were two large slits cut into the top of his middle cover, but squeezed close by the pressure of his belly.

    Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World 1726

  • There were two pockets which we could not enter: these he called his fobs; they were two large slits cut into the top of his middle cover, but squeezed close by the pressure of his belly.

    Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706

  • There were two pockets which we could not enter: these he called his fobs; they were two large slits cut into the top of his middle cover, but squeezed close by the pressure of his belly.

    Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706

  • There were two pockets which we could not enter: these he called his fobs; they were two large slits cut into the top of his middle cover, but squeezed close by the pressure of his belly.

    Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706

  • "There were two pockets which we could not enter; these he called his fobs; they were two large slits cut into the top of his middle cover, but squeezed close by the pressure of his belly.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • He took them out of tl Cafes, and told us, that in his own country prance was to (liave his beard with one thefe, and to cut his meat with the otl There were two pockets, which we could enter: thcfe he called his fobs; they v two large flits cut into the top of his mic cover, but fqueczcd clofe by the prefl! ure of belly.

    The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin 1768

  • "fobs," products like Assure II; and that was done with some forethought, Lyons said.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • "fobs," products like Assure II; and that was done with some forethought, Lyons said.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

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  • an ethnic slur for people 'Fresh Off the Boat' : who don't know local customs or language. I'm not a fan of slurs.

    October 21, 2014