He'd not turn from the duty intrusted to him to hobnob with a Prince of the Blood.
Again I am struck by the familiar way in which the Russians hobnob with the Mongols.
You would not wish to insult me by refusing to hobnob with me?
Here on the road they are as good as any; they hobnob with the rose.
How odd it is that the Joyeuses should care to hobnob with demi-castors.
Jacinto Quesada had not stopped in passing to hobnob with the Gypsies.
To go and hobnob with the Chambannes and their friends, that would be the last straw!
Do I hobnob with all the half-starved limners in Fleet Street?
It means you'll have to hobnob with Eurasian clerks and their wives.
You were half-drunk when you and Perley began to hobnob over a downtown bar.
1763, "to drink to each other," from hob and nob (1756) "to toast each other by turns, to buy alternate rounds of drinks," from c.1550 hab nab "to have or have not, hit or miss," probably ultimately from Old English habban, nabban "have, not have," with the negative particle ne- attached, as was customary. Modern sense of "socialize" is 1866. Related: Hobnobbed; hobnobbing.
