Definition of "fob off" [fob off]

• To put off by evasion (verb)
• To fraudulently dispose of goods (verb)

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• "However, it was more difficult to leave the Forum area than Quintus Nonius had counted on, for every few feet he was stopped and warmly congratulated; a natural courtesy could not allow him to fob off his well-wishers, so he lingered in a forced detention, beaming and bowing, shaking a hundred hands."