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palm off

palm off verb: to sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine.

Verb

palm off (third-person singular simple present palms off, present participle palming off, simple past and past participle palmed off)

  1. (idiomatic) To sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine.
    • The inveterate liars of the Semi-Weekly Earthquake are evidently endeavoring to palm off upon a noble and chivalrous people another of their vile and brutal falsehoods […]1871, Mark Twain, Journalism In Tennessee
    • […] the old mangy parcel he sent at Xmas a cottage cake and a bottle of hogwash he tried to palm off as claret that he couldnt^([sic]) get anyone to drink […]1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 18]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

palm off meaning in Kannada

palm off in Kannada

ಬಲವಂತವಾಗಿ ಹೇರು, ಹೊರಿಸು

Synonyms of palm off

All synonyms of palm off

Forms of palm off

third-person singular presentpalms off
present participlepalming off
past participlepalmed off
pastpalmed off

Origin of palm off

“Palming” an object (as in a playing card) is a type of sleight of hand, secretly removing the desired article and leaving only the undesired one.

Questions about palm off

What does palm off mean?
Palm off means to sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine.
What is palm off in Kannada?
Palm off in Kannada is ಬಲವಂತವಾಗಿ ಹೇರು, ಹೊರಿಸು. See Palm off meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is palm off?
Palm off is a verb.
What is the past tense of palm off?
The past tense of palm off is palmed off.

Words near palm off in the dictionary

  1. palm muted
  2. palm mutes
  3. palm muting
  4. palm nut
  5. palm nuts
  6. palm off
  7. palm oil
  8. palm oils
  9. palm out
  10. palm print
  11. palm prints

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palm off (page history and authors); palm off (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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