Fob /(fŏb)/

Fob

n.
  1. A little pocket for a watch; -- callled also a watch pocket.
  2. 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.

Phrases & Compounds
Fob chain
a short watch chain worn with a watch carried in the fob; a fob{2}.

Fob

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Fobbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fobbing

  1. To beat; to maul. [Obs.]
  2. To cheat; to trick; to impose on.

Phrases & Compounds
To fob off
to shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people."