Synonyms of nobbling

nobbling

verb

present participle of nobble, British slang

1

as in cheating

to rob by the use of trickery or threats

an old scam that's been used for years to nobble unsuspecting London tourists

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheating
• squeezing
• plucking
• stinging
• hustling
• screwing
• sticking
• beating
• mulcting
• doing
• defrauding
• fleecing
• bleeding
• swindling
• deceiving
• fiddling
• chiselling
• exploiting
• cozening
• conning
• bilking
• tricking
• shorting
• rooking
• diddling
• victimizing
• reaming
• suckering
• gaffing
• shaking down
• shortchanging
• stiffing
• hosing
• chiseling
• ripping off
• skinning
• fooling
• betraying
• chousing
• euchring
• thimblerigging
• flimflamming
• extorting
• doing in
• taking for a ride
• gouging
• skunking
• nicking
• taking to the cleaners
• wrenching
• clipping
• overcharging
• milking
• gulling
• selling a bill of goods to
• wresting
• wringing
• duping
• soaking
• bamboozling
• bitching
• double-crossing
• roping (in)
• fast-talking

2

as in grabbing

to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly

a London bobby nobbled the pickpocket just as he was about to make off with the tourist's watch

Synonyms & Similar Words

• grabbing
• catching
• snatching
• seizing
• capturing
• getting
• landing
• trapping
• snaring
• snagging
• copping
• grappling
• nabbing
• netting
• hooking
• nailing
• bagging
• rapping
• corralling
• collaring
• snapping (up)
• taking hold (of)
• glomming
• arresting
• grasping
• holding
• roping
• clutching
• detaining
• securing
• apprehending
• cornering
• lassoing
• kidnapping
• gripping
• baying
• haltering
• gloving
• abducting
• ensnaring
• kidnaping
• entrapping
• clasping
• enmeshing
• wresting
• fisting
• fastening (on)
• latching (on or onto)
• rending
• meshing
• entangling
• immeshing
• spiriting (away or off)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• missing
• discharging
• freeing
• releasing
• liberating
• dropping
• loosening
• unhanding