0 to make something fail, especially to make a horse in a race fail by giving it drugs
1 to persuade someone to do what you want them to do, especially by using money or threats:
2 to intentionally catch the attention of someone so that you can talk to them:
Jury tampering and nobbling are rare in our system, because it is almost impossible to corrupt an entire jury.
They came to the conclusion he was nobbling the horse.
It is one of the few newspapers which he has not managed to nobble.
Of course, one has to fight attempts to "nobble" juries.
It seems to me that porters nobble all the trolleys and the passengers are left in a great deal of difficulty finding any trolleys themselves.
On the face of it, abolition of the right to peremptory challenge would make it more likely that people would attempt to nobble juries.
In view of the previous debate, one might say that that was nobbling the horse in the stable.
It is interesting that that constituency seems to have been nobbled—certainly the ex-presidents are conspicuously absent in this debate.
