Definition of Nobble
Verb: nobble nó-bul
Usage: Brit
- Deprive of by deceit
"He nobbled me out of my inheritance";
- victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick [N. Amer], diddle, bunco [N. Amer], defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle [N. Amer], short-change, con, victimise [Brit], ream [N. Amer], grift [N. Amer], bunko
- Make off with belongings of others
- pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch [Brit], abstract, snarf [N. Amer], swipe, hook, sneak, filch [informal], lift, snatch, whip [Brit], nick [Brit, informal]
- (crime) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
"The industrialist's son was nobbled";
- kidnap, abduct, snatch
- Disable by drugging
"nobble the race horses"
- Speak to someone
- address, accost, come up to, buttonhole
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