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hobnob

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Noun — (dated) A drink to someone's health, made while clinking glasses together.

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Etymology

Comes from hob and nob, the archaic phrase hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”), which developed from dialectal hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”). That in turn goes back to Old...

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