hobnob

Meanings

Noun

• A toast made while touching glasses together.
• A drinking together.
• An informal chat.

Verb

• To drink together.
• To associate with in a friendly manner, often with those of a higher class or status.
• To have or have not; to give or take.
• To toast one another by touching glasses.

Adjective

• On friendly terms; in friendly association.

Adverb

• At random; at a venture; hit and miss.

Related

Similar words

• fraternize
• rub elbows with, rub shoulders with

Origin

• From hob and nob, hob or nob , from dialectal hab nab, from Old English habban ("to have, possess") (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- ("to grab, seize")) + nabban (from ne (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ne ("not")) + habban).