Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fob \Fob\, v.t. [imp. & p. p. {Fobbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Fobbing}.] [Cf.Fop.]
   1. To beat; to maul. [Obs.]

   2. To cheat; to trick; to impose on. --Shak.

   {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." --Milton.