fob

Multiple Entries:
  fob    f.o.b.  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fob1

▶noun a chain attached to a watch for carrying in a waistcoat or waistband pocket.

■ a small ornament attached to a watch chain.

■ (also fob pocket) a small pocket for carrying a watch.

■ a tab on a key ring.

– origin C17: origin uncertain; prob. rel. to Ger. dial. Fuppe ‘pocket’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fob2

▶verb (fobs, fobbing, fobbed) (fob someone off) deceitfully attempt to satisfy someone by making excuses or giving them something inferior.

■ (fob something off on) give something inferior to.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘cheat out of’): origin uncertain; perh. rel. to Ger. foppen ‘deceive, banter’, or to fop.

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f.o.b.

▶abbreviation free on board.