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Strategies & Market Trends : Taking it in the shorts
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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (860)7/25/1998 8:06:00 PM
From: flickerful   of 944
 
foist (verb transitive)

[probably from obsolete Dutch vuisten to take into one's hand, from Middle Dutch vuysten, from vuyst fist; akin to Old English fyst fist]

First appeared circa 1587

1 a : to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant

b : to force another to accept esp. by stealth or deceit

2 : to pass off as genuine or worthy <~ costly and valueless products on the public --Jonathan Spivak>
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