0 present participle of palm
1 to make something seem to disappear by hiding it in the palm of your hand as part of a trick, or to steal something by picking it up in a way that will not be noticed:
We are not shielded - not one of us: and we cannot shield ourselves simply by accusing others and palming the responsibility off on to others.
Here is a speculative firm, anxious to get anyone to take their wares, and to some extent palming them off on to this man.
Is it a case of palming of "dud" machines on to these nations?
Do they realise that it is no good palming us off time after time by saying that they are complementary?
The £70 million package to get councils to sell off tenancies was a way not of tackling the backlog of housing disrepair but of palming it off on someone else.
This palming technique is easily adaptable to coin magic for the use of a jumbo coin (usually 3 inches in diameter).
Some players alternate between fingerstyle and plectrum playing, palming the plectrum when it is not in use.
On some reels, palming is difficult or impossible because the spool is fully skirted.
