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Meanings of nobble in English

Portuguese
fraudar
Catalan
defraudar
Spanish
embaucar

Deprive of by deceit.

      fraudar
      Portuguese
      roubar
      Catalan
      furtar
      Spanish
      afanar

      Make off with belongings of others.

          roubar
          Portuguese
          raptar
          Catalan
          raptar
          Spanish
          raptar

          Take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom.

                raptar
                Usage of nobble in English
                1
                With a little luck he hopes to nobble a few more this afternoon.
                The Soul of the War
                2
                We were going well and if you wanted to nobble someone who would you nobble?
                The Guardian
                3
                Which means I nobble him absolutely as soon as I can, first thing in the morning.
                The Atrocity Archives
                4
                Both Professor Littlewood and Mr Riley agreed that greater transparency will nobble New Zealand's growing foreign trust industry.
                Radio NZ
                5
                Attempts had been made to "nobble" a referee.
                The Irish Times
                6
                There was a particular old Labour grandee who used to nobble me in order to give me 'sound advice'.
                A journey: my political life
                7
                She did it for Ronnie a while back when there was talk of someone trying to nobble his horses.
                Enchanted Glass
                8
                Such things could well and truly nobble a band from the outset, but Edinburgh's Broken Records seem to be made of sterner stuff.
                The Irish Times
                9
                If you don't want a mutual admiration society, which dies as soon as you've all discovered each other's faults, you must nobble the Press.
                Night and Day
                10
                The suspicion is that the Treasury was simply nobbled by bookies' lobbyists.
                The Guardian
                11
                Nobble they thought was the foulest place which they had ever seen.
                John Caldigate
                12
                If anybody had done well at Nobble, Mr. Crinkett had done well.
                John Caldigate
                13
                Then Downing Street briefed about how it had nobbled the foreign secretary.
                The Guardian
                14
                Environmental lawyer Simon Berry said DOC had been 'nobbled' by the previous government.
                Radio NZ
                15
                More art: how litigation and forgeries are nobbling the art trade.
                The Irish Times
                16
                She could not account for the absence of the Nobble postmark.
                John Caldigate