fob
IPA: fˈɔb
noun
- A little pocket near the waistline of a pair of trousers or in a waistcoat or vest to hold money or valuables, especially a pocket watch.
- A short chain or ribbon to connect such a pocket to the watch.
- (see usage notes) A small ornament attached to such a chain.
- A hand-held remote control device used to lock/unlock motor cars etc.
- (military) Initialism of forward operating base.
- Initialism of flash of brilliance.
- Initialism of freedom of belief.
- (US, politics) Initialism of friend of Bill: a supporter of Bill Clinton.
- (India) Initialism of foot overbridge: a pedestrian overpass.
- (sometimes derogatory) Initialism of fresh off the boat, a recent immigrant.
- (pathology) Abbreviation of fecal occult blood.
- (music) Initialism of Fall Out Boy, an American pop-punk band formed in Chicago.
verb
- (transitive, archaic) To cheat, to deceive, to trick, to take in, to impose upon someone.
- (transitive, archaic) To beat; to maul.
adjective
- (Incoterm) Alternative letter-case form of FOB (“free on board”)
- (Incoterm) Initialism of free on board. [(Incoterm) without charge to the purchaser for delivery on board a carrier (originally a ship), at a specified location or point; used in such phrases as FOB destination to specify the point where the title of goods passes from the seller to the buyer]
- (slang) Initialism of fresh off the boat. [(idiomatic, usually derogatory) Newly arrived from a foreign place, especially as an immigrant who is still unfamiliar with the customs and language of his or her new environment.]
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Examples of "fob" in Sentences
- As far as I can tell, locking the car with the fob is a bad idea.
- At the Jewelry table, Adam Patrick of A La Vielle Russie, Inc. examines an Elks fob from the early 20th century.
- Great Wired News article about TV B-Gone, a keychain fob that you can use to turn off bothersome TVs in bars, airports, etc.
- Ben brought a Pogo animation cel for appraisal and his colleague Jessica Lewis had a Elks Club fob from the early part of last century.
- The RFBug is a little pink keychain fob with an LED inside that blinks furiously when it's brought into range of radio frequencies between 1MHz and 2. 5GHz -- your basic data/cellular/cordless phone spectrum.
- The story itself is interesting, but the part that stuck out was this gadget, called a "raskat" device, which comes with a wireless keychain fob that can remotely trigger the destruction of data on a computer hard drive.
- I don’t remember who did it – it may have been on SNL – but there was a great skit several years back about what would happen if, instead of car alarms setting off the car’s horn, they sent a signal to a keychain fob which shocked the owner.
- TV-B-Gone is, according to NYT, a $14.99 keychain fob that is "Essentially a one-trick remote control [that] quickly spits out roughly 200 infrared codes and, within customary remote-control range, turns off most televisions in a few seconds."
- The out of place plushie speaks of a summer love and heart break at Christmas, the gnarly key fob is from a friend who drove into a bridge abutment, and the plastic dog dish in a house with no dogs speaks of the dog that ran away at the cottage.
- Bruce Schneier's op-ed on CNet about identity theft talks about why "two-factor" authentication (e.g. having to enter a password and a number that you read off of a little keychain fob) is useful for lots of things, but not for preventing identity theft.
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