nobble
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
nobble (nobbles, present participle nobbling; past and past participle nobbled)
- (British, Australia, slang) To injure or obstruct intentionally.
- 2011, Terry Ryder, "Affordable-housing lobby out to nobble investments ↗", The Australian, 22 October 2011:
- Their core belief, unsupported by evidence or logic, is that homes are unaffordable because investors drive up prices.
- Australians for Affordable Housing appears to think that nobbling investors will strike a telling blow for first-time buyers: remove negative gearing and increase capital gains tax, and homes will be affordable.
- 2012, Gavin Clarke, "Google attacks Twitter's search bias claim ↗", The Register, 11 January 2012:
- Google has come out fighting after Twitter claimed that changes to its search engine nobble results to favour Google+, damaging the internet.
- 2012, "3D printing: Difference Engine: The PC all over again? ↗", The Economist, 9 September 2012:
- His main fear is that the fledgling technology could have its wings clipped by traditional manufacturers, who will doubtless view it as a threat to their livelihoods, and do all in their powers to nobble it.
- 2011, Terry Ryder, "Affordable-housing lobby out to nobble investments ↗", The Australian, 22 October 2011:
- (British, slang) To gain influence by corrupt means or intimidation.
- The jury was nobbled to delay unanimous verdict.
- 2000, Italo Pardo, Morals of Legitimacy: Between Agency and System, page 122
- Unlike "noble" vigilantes, the police and court facilities which exist are said to be inefficient and corrupt, and juries are said to be easily "nobbled" or intimidated.
- 2002, Kevin Jefferys, Labour Forces: From Ernie Bevin to Gordon Brown, page 107
- For example jury trials were reformed to allow majority verdicts, so that criminals could less easily nobble them.
- 2012, Mark Hagger, William: King and Conqueror, page 75
- Here, though, Picot's overbearing power, and the fact that the bishop was an absentee, meant that the sheriff could use threats to "nobble" the judges.
- (British, slang) To steal.
- To tamper (typically with a racehorse) in order to prevent from winning a race
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