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nobbleverb British slangto rob by the use of trickery or threatsan old scam that's been used for years to nobble unsuspecting London tourists beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose(slang), hustle, mulct, pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize extort, wrench, wrest, wringclip, gouge, nick, overcharge, soakexploit, milkdeceive, dupe, fool, gull, trickrope (in)betray, bitch, double-crossbamboozle, fast-talk sell a bill of goods to, take for a ride, take to the cleaners to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forciblya London bobby nobbled the pickpocket just as he was about to make off with the tourist's watch bag, capture, catch, collar, cop(slang), corral, get, glom, grab, grapple, hook, land, nab, nail, net, rap, seize, snag, snap (up), snare, snatch, trap glove, halter, lasso, ropeapprehend, arrest, detainbay, cornerclasp, clutch, fasten (on), fist, grasp, grip, hold, latch (on or onto), securerend, wrestenmesh(also immesh), ensnare, entangle, entrap, meshabduct, kidnap, spirit (away or off) take hold (of) miss discharge, free, liberate, releasedrop, loosen, unhand in 1847 |