fob

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A small pocket at the front waistline of a man's trousers or in the front of a vest, used especially to hold a watch.
2. n. A short chain or ribbon attached to a pocket watch and worn hanging in front of the vest or waist.
3. n. An ornament or seal attached to such a chain or ribbon.
4. v. Archaic To cheat or deceive (another).
5. fob off To dispose of (goods) by fraud or deception; palm off: fobbed off the zircon as a diamond.
6. fob off To put off or appease by deceitful or evasive means: needed help but was fobbed off with promises.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To cheat; trick; impose upon.
2. To beat; maltreat.
3. To pass off by a false representation; dispose of by deception: as, to fob off a worthless article on a customer.
4. n. A tap on the shoulder, as from a bailiff.
5. n. A cheat.
6. n. A little pocket made in the waist-band of men's breeches or trousers as a receptacle for a watch.
7. n. A watch-chain, or ribbon with buckle and seals or the like, such as is worn appended to the watch and hanging from the fob.
8. To put into a fob; pocket; get possession of.
9. To breathe hard or with heaving sides; gasp from violent running.
10. n. Froth or foam.

Wiktionary

1. n. A little pocket near the waistline of a pair of trousers or in a waistcoat or vest to hold a pocketwatch; a watch pocket.
2. n. A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch.
3. n. A small ornament attached to such a chain. (See Usage Notes below)
4. n. A hand-held remote control device used to lock/unlock motor cars etc.
5. v. transitive, archaic To cheat, to trick, to take in, to impose upon someone.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A little pocket for a watch; -- callled also a watch pocket.
2. n. a short chain or ribbon attached to a pocket watch, usually worn hanging out of the watch pocket, and used to conveniently remove the watch from the watch pocket.
3. v. obsolete To beat; to maul.
4. v. To cheat; to trick; to impose on.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest
2. n. an adornment that hangs from a watch chain
3. v. deceive somebody
4. n. a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch