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nobble
verb- to sabotage, especially to hinder or defeat a rival UK, 1856
From horse-tampering. - He’s taken care of... I sent Joe and Vic to nobble him! — The Sweeney, p. 42, 1976
- DEREK: Dumpton Cross? Us’ll find the lorry easy enough... [To LITTLE MICHAEL] You nobblin’ their wagon? [LITTLE MICHAEL smiles proudly.] BRIAN: Good lad. — Chris Baker and Andrew Day, Lock, Stock... & One Big Bullock, p. 349, 2000
- to corrupt, or otherwise tamper with, a jury or jury member UK, 1856
- Free to tell the truth at last, he would describe how the sting had been set up; how MI5 had arranged for the jury to be nobbled into declaring a pillar of the community a perjurer.] — Observer, 20 July 2003
- in horse racing, to drug a horse to impair its performance UK, 1847
- — Rita Cannon, Let’s Go Racing, p. 72, 1948
- to appropriate dishonestly, to steal UK, 1854
- They’ve nobbled the wages! — Derek Bickerton, Payroll, p. 65, 1959
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