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Examples of nobble
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Mr Madrazo, as party chief, may also be able to fix its primaries to nobble his internal rival.
From the economist.com
It is clear that the SPL and SFA have done everything possible in an attempt to nobble Rangers.
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A few even suggested we were out to nobble the All Blacks.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The government is now trying to nobble the central bank.
From the economist.com
It is hardly an incentive to grow an industry knowing that if you do, Ministers will nobble you again.
From the guardian.co.uk
But it will certainly nobble its European practitioners.
From the economist.com
Also, slightly frumpy flat cap with amusing nobble on top.
From the guardian.co.uk
It must be tempting to nobble a rival.
From the economist.com
A more likely reason for their reluctance to nobble the cabinet, if true, is that they fear losing in court.
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- Victimize: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
- Pilfer: make off with belongings of others
- Kidnap: take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"
- Disable by drugging; "nobble the race horses"
- To injure or obstruct intently, batter
- (nobbly) Alternative spelling of knobbly
- Verb. To tamper with, to damage. E.g."We were nobbled before the race began and came last."
- 1. to tamper illegally with a race-horse, such as by drugging. 2. to obtain dishonestly; swindle; cheat. 3. to capture; seize; grab; arrest. 4. to delegate a task to someone unwilling to do it: e.g., I got nobbled with the late shift on New Year's Eve.
- In episode 3 of series 1, The Gambling Event, Bertie says that all the events that he bet on were "scratched, axed, or nobbled." "Nobble" is slang meaning "disabled", and comes from a contraction of "hobble" in the noun form; "an 'obbler", which turned into "a nobbler".
