hobnob
verb (used without object)
to associate on very friendly terms (usually followed bywith ).
was hobnobbing
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past progressiveof hobnob.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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At the time, Epstein was a money manager and jet-setting financier who, with his girlfriend Maxwell, was hobnobbing with the world's wealthiest from Buckingham Palace to Palm Beach and collecting powerful friends along the way.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
A close second was when he was hobnobbing with his colleagues.
From Science Magazine ● May 3, 2023
But, from time to time, he’ll catch people doing double-takes in public, sometimes approaching him later to ask if he was hobnobbing with movie stars.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2022
He campaigned for Democrat Hubert Humphrey in 1968, but the wary Humphrey camp froze him out, too, and before long Sinatra was hobnobbing with Spiro Agnew and President Richard Nixon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2015
Hugh's family was hobnobbing with chiefs and sultans while I ate hush puppies at the Sanitary Fish Market in Morehead City, a beach towel wrapped like a hijab around my head.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
