1. Dispose of something unwanted or inferior by deceptively presenting it as genuine or desirable
   "The art dealer tried to fob off fake paintings as originals";
   - foist off [informal], palm off, pass off
    
2. Put off with excuses or distractions
   "He kept fobbing off his creditors with promises of future payment"
    
3. Pass on an unwanted task or responsibility to someone else
   "She fobbed off the difficult customer onto her colleague";
   - palm off [informal], foist off [informal], dump [informal]

Derived forms: fobbing off, fobs off, fobbed off

Type of: flog [Brit, informal], sell