(nobbles, nobbling, nobbled)
1.
If someone nobbles an important group of people such as a committee, they offer them money or threaten them in order to make them do something. (BRIT INFORMAL)
The trial was stopped before Christmas after allegations of attempts to nobble the jury...
VERB: V n
2.
If someone nobbles a racehorse, they deliberately harm it, often using drugs, in order to prevent it from winning a race. (BRIT INFORMAL)
...the drug used to nobble two horses at Doncaster.
VERB: V n
3.
If someone nobbles your plans or chances of succeeding, they prevent you from achieving what you want. (BRIT INFORMAL)
His opportunity to re-establish himself had been nobbled by the manager's tactics.
VERB: V n