0 past simple and past participle of nobble
1 to make something fail, especially to make a horse in a race fail by giving it drugs
2 to persuade someone to do what you want them to do, especially by using money or threats:
3 to intentionally catch the attention of someone so that you can talk to them:
The perpetrator of the original crime may have been acquitted as a result of that now dead witness having been nobbled.
It has been argued that juries may be nobbled.
Supposing someone is nobbled and a jury disagrees.
We will introduce a new offence of witness intimidation, and allow retrials to take place if juries have been nobbled.
It is interesting that that constituency seems to have been nobbled—certainly the ex-presidents are conspicuously absent in this debate.
I would not say that they have been nobbled, but we are concerned about the balance between the two views.
Is there any evidence to show that juries are nobbled or got at in the provinces?
Those who are nobbled are presumably those who complain to the judge, after which the case is set aside for a new jury.
