Definition of "nobbled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of nobble. (verb)

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• "A local magnate, the head of some great family, a peer of old descent, was often thus "nobbled" -- to use a modern colloquialism -- and was allowed to make as many freemen as he pleased and to take whatever part he would in the control of municipal affairs."
• "If they knew he'd been "nobbled," they'd greatly rejoice;"
• "Juror was 'nobbled' in Liverpool gangster Curtis Warren trial, Court of Appeal hears next"