1. impose an unwelcome or unnecessary person or thing on:"don't let anyone foist inferior goods on you"Similarimposeforcethrustoffloadunloaddumppalm offfob offshift ontopass offget rid ofsaddle someone withland someone withburden someone withlumber someone with
Word Originmid 16th century (in the sense ‘palm a false die, so as to produce it at the right moment’): from Dutch dialect vuisten ‘take in the hand’, from vuist (see fist).
