what is a hobnob
Top Definition. hobnob. hobnob v 1. to mingle, usually with the upper class of society. The verb hobnob originally meant âto drink togetherâ and occurred as a varying phrase, hob or nob, hob-a-nob, or hob and nob, the first of which is recorded in 1763. After the opera, we hobnobbed with the foreign heads-of-state..