I love the term hobnob!. From Wordnik.com. [You Gotta Respect Them For Admitting It Was Illegal] Reference
(The nature of the social ceremony named the "hobnob" is not now understood, but it is known that it was a sign of amity and favor.). From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1] Reference
You hobnob with world leaders and get treated like royalty. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
What's it like to put on a tuxedo and hobnob with the stars?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2005] Reference
COOPER: Yes, well you know, I like to hobnob with the in-crowd. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 6, 2002] Reference
Kamber and May weigh in on the hobnob issue in a few moments here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2004] Reference
These people never come outside to hobnob in the early evening hours. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
To confer, converse, and otherwise hobnob with my brother wizards. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 11: Hairy Potter & the Order of the Doofus.] Reference
We occasionally hobnob over the chess board and a modest glass of wine. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference
This kind of encounter isn't the sort of celebrity hobnob I'm talking about. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrity Communion] Reference
Last weekend top-dollar donors were invited to hobnob with Clinton in Aspen. From Wordnik.com. [Fun Money] Reference
They hobnob with millionaires, and they don't have two cents to rub together. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering Sen. Stevens And Rep. Rostenkowski] Reference
LONG: And you also hobnob with a very handsome gentleman right there as well. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2009] Reference
Capitol to hobnob with old cronies, and his son had been allowed to roam at will. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
Again I am struck by the familiar way in which the Russians hobnob with the Mongols. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
“Andrew would hobnob with the La Jolla rich and then wear his blazer to the Hole.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Killer's Trail] Reference
Pao-yü, to hobnob with that set that your father recently lost control over his temper. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
The French and English officers here all sit at different tables, and don't hobnob much. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915] Reference
The democratic party has long since stopped serving the common man to hobnob with the elite. From Wordnik.com. [Cleaning the Two Party Garbage Out of the DrainTo Make Room for the Cream of the Heart] Reference
I like to hobnob with such folks as these, both for my own pleasure and also for the reputation. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
Department officials say he made three trips to the island to hobnob with Taiwanese businessmen. From Wordnik.com. [Now, The Taiwan Axis] Reference
She wanted to create a “cultural center” where the literati could hobnob with the glitterati. From Wordnik.com. [Postscript] Reference
I'll buy me a fiddle in Italy, and hobnob with gondoliers, singing the songs of Tasso on Venetian waters. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
It is because its okay to hobnob with traitors and killers as long as they're right-wing traitors and murderers?. From Wordnik.com. [Palin Supporter To Black Sound Man: "Sit Down, Boy"] Reference
He is strangely un-American, strangely agnostic in his view of US capitalism, inclined to hobnob with its critics?. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
"I thought I'd get in with them all right away, hobnob with lords and baronets, and maybe get knighted on the spot.". From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
I'd be a perennial in the Land of the Young and could hobnob indefinitely with his Flighty Highness, the King of Youth. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Or, avoiding boring golf, he could hobnob with power brokers on his mega yacht or ocean-front home in prestigious Manalapan, Fla. From Wordnik.com. [Teeing Off With O'Neal] Reference
Maybe when they hobnob over cheese and wine for a night they'll remember that they actually agree on most things and like each other. From Wordnik.com. [Al Gore Hosting Major Fundraising Event For DNC Uniting Clinton And Obama Donors] Reference
See ... at wedding receptions the first hour or so of music is background music that people can eat and hobnob over and all that jazz. From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
CNN ` s pop culture correspondent, Toure, had an opportunity to sit on the red carpet and hobnob with some of the celebs on the way in. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2005] Reference
But the gate crashers who finagled their way into the White House dinner didn't just hobnob with VIPs, they actually met President Obama. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2009] Reference
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