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fob

noun as in coxcomb

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The sunny showroom now features two spacious rooms filled with Vivier’s signature handbags and colorful “bits, bobs, straps and fobs,” according to the store’s window.

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"I was absolutely gutted and every phone call I made to the Bournemouth office, I got fobbed off."

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Ms Mannings reflected on how people often ask "are you OK?" - but it's a vague question, easy to "fob off".

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Hikers carry fobs and must scan in at four checkpoints 7 miles apart and depart by a certain time or quit.

Herzog rejects the notion that propaganda of the kind that the former Soviet Union’s media outlets fobbed off as the truth is much different from the way liberal democracies present and digest the news now.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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