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Why: The key to the bathroom at Katrina's pool is labeled FOB. The only meaning for those letters that I know are "Fresh Off the Boat," which is how my xenophobic roommate Erin used to describe most non-WASPs.
Answer: The word fob can mean:
- Fob pocket, a small pocket in trousers or waistcoats originally intended to hold a pocket watch
- Key fob, a medallion used to identify a key ring, or position on the ring
- "Fob" is thus sometimes used for various small electronic security token devices
- Watch fob, a medallion or ornament attached to a pocket watch to assist in handling
- Fob, an ethnic term in Australian English in reference to Pacific Islanders (ie.Polynesians)
FOB or F.O.B. (the acronym) can mean:
- Fall Out Boy
- Fecal occult blood, blood present in the feces that is not visibly apparent
- "Federal Office Building"", any office building owned or occupied by the US Government
- Fetal osteoblast progenitor cell
- Follow-on biologics, a term used to describe generic biologics
- Forward Operating Base, any secured forward position that is used to support tactical operations
- Fractional Orbital Bombardment, a method of nuclear weapons delivery
- FOB (shipping), either Free on Board or Freight On Board, used in commercial shipping
- Fresh off the boat, a slang phrase for people of foreign nationality
- FOB (play), a 1981 David Henry Hwang play
- FOB (movie), an upcoming film from ShadowMagic Productions
- Fuel On Board, Airbus aircraft instrument indication of gross fuel loaded
The More You Know: So in terms of keys, apparently a "fob" is just a keychain. Electronic key fobs can be remote car entry thingies, little USB drives, whatever. The word fob may come from German dialects for "pocket" - fobke, fuppe - but nobody really knows.
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