Usually means: Impose something unwanted on others.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. foist: Merriam-Webster
  2. foist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. foist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. foist: Vocabulary.com
  6. Foist, foist: Wordnik
  7. foist: Wiktionary
  8. foist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. foist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. foist: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Foist, foist: Dictionary.com
  12. foist: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. foist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Foist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Foist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. foist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. foist: Rhymezone
  18. Foist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. foist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. foist: FreeDictionary.org
  21. foist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. foist: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. foist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foist: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foist: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. foist, foist, foist, foist: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. foist: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See foisted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (foist)

verb:  (transitive) To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
verb:  (transitive) To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit; to stick.
verb:  (transitive) To pass off as genuine or worthy.
noun:  (historical slang) A thief or pickpocket.
noun:  (obsolete) A light and fast-sailing ship.
noun:  (obsolete) A cask for wine.
noun:  Fustiness; mustiness.
adjective:  Pronunciation spelling of first. [Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.]

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