hobnob
verb (used without object)
to associate on very friendly terms (usually followed bywith ).
had been hobnobbing
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past perfect progressiveof hobnob.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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From Berlin, where she had been hobnobbing with Hitler, Goring and Goebbels, rushed the eldest and favorite child of Il Duce, his daughter Edda, Countess Ciano, wife of Italy's Foreign Minister.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been hobnobbing with ambassadors and swells—I wondered if he had found out anything.
From Greenmantle by John Buchan
“How did you ever get down to this work?” asked Tom bluntly, “after you had been hobnobbing with Dukes and living in Paris?”
From The Frontier Boys in the Sierras Or, The Lost Mine by Wyn Roosevelt
We were all willing to purchase it at any price, but he handed it over to one of our men who had been hobnobbing with him in the morning.
From The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" by George Davidson
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