[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.

        And while they think, the precious ninnies,
  He’s counting o’er their purse 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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