[f. FOB sb.2] trans. To put into one’s fob, to pocket; also with up.

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1818.  Moore, Fudge Fam. Paris, vi. 158/62.

        And while they think, the precious ninnies,
  He’s counting o’er their pulse so steady,
The rogue but counts how many guineas
  He’s fobb’d, for that day’s work, already.

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1821.  Clare, The Village Minstrel, I. 35. lxiv.

          The sailor heartfelt thankfulness declares,
  ‘God blesses’ all, styles them ‘gentlemen,’
And fobs his money up, and ’gins his tale agen.

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1840.  Hood, Up the Rhine, 4. When the qualm is over [he] quietly fobs the Timepiece.

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1842.  S. Lover, Handy Andy, iv. The gentlemen in black silk stockings, with gold-headed canes, have been fobbing fees for three weeks.

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