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Hobbs
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An English surname, also the name of a city in New Mexico, United States.
"They stopped for gas in Hobbs on the way to Texas."
Word Forms
Hobbses plural
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Etymology
From a medieval diminutive of the given name Robert plus the patronymic suffix -s.