hobnob
verb (used without object)
to associate on very friendly terms (usually followed bywith ).
had hobnobbed
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past perfectof hobnob.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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The Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin had hobnobbed with Worcestershire neighbors of their estate, "Astley Hall."
From Time Magazine Archive
And there was in their faces, too, the calm, confident look of men who had hobnobbed with death, and had come away unafraid.
From Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition by John Gallishaw
Every child who reads The Wonder Book doubts not that Hawthorne had hobnobbed many a moonlit night with Pan and Bacchus in their vine-covered grottos by the riverside.
From Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 by Henrietta Christian Wright
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