(adv.) Have or have not; -- a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking.
(adv.) At random; hit or miss. (Obs.)
(v. i.) To drink familiarly (with another).
(v. i.) To associate familiarly; to be on intimate terms.
(n.) Familiar, social intercourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The man was carrying a plastic bag but, instead of giving the officers abuse, he offered them Hobnobs.
(2) The deathly silent crowd highlighted the sound of me struggling to subtly catch my breath, while Mick crunched his way through three Hobnobs my technician gave him in between changing all the microphones.
(3) Rinehart has previously dismissed climate change: “I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change.” But rather than hobnobbing with scientists, she is better known for funding speaking tours for opponents of climate science, such as the former Ukip deputy leader (Lord) Christopher Monckton .
(4) "If you hobnob with these groups then it just makes them appear acceptable to ordinary people."
(5) I think that my menu wasn't as interesting as I thought it was because I was craving Hobnobs by the end.
(6) I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob.
(7) It's a celebrity, always in the papers, hobnobbing at parties with what the logo for the London Olympics cost and the price of that duck island.
(8) As foreign secretary William Hague met with representatives from over 140 countries to work towards ending impunity for wartime sexual violence and increasing prosecutions, he was airily accused of " hobnobbing at rape summit" with Angelina Jolie.
(9) Osborne struggled to connect personally with the workers, who were kitted out in high visibility vests in the freezing distribution centre, as he made his pitch in front of row upon row of supermarket goods from chocolate Hobnobs to Carlsberg beer packed floor to ceiling.
(10) At exactly the same moment as Shakespeare was supposedly a servant of the Raj, in other words, he was also working for the opposition: hobnobbing with myriad local cultures, changing beyond all recognition.
(11) The morning after featured a television appearance on the CBS breakfast show, a photoshoot with the trophy in Central Park and a reception at British consul Danny Lopez's official residence in Manhattan, where he was welcomed by a Scottish piper playing Scotland the Brave and was offered Hula Hoops, Maltesers and Hobnobs.
(12) Far better that decisions about Europe are taken by wiser heads, like those hobnobbing at Bilderberg.
(13) But it's not just that ministers are not discouraged from hobnobbing with corporate executives: they are now obliged to do so.
(14) But, according to William Easterly , celebrities have been too quick to rub shoulders and hobnob with the powerful.
(15) There is a pause, and then a voice rises up from the back of the room: "HobNobs!"
(16) Doubles from £74, B&B Pousada Naturalia, Ilha Grande While the exclusive private islands that dot the sea around Ihla Grande are more associated with celebrity hobnobbing and magazine photo shoots, Abraão, the island’s main village, some 93 miles south-west of the city of Rio, boasts a cluster of more humble abodes.
(17) The French have accused the UK of hypocrisy in telling them not to sell warships to Russia, while leading Tories hobnob with Russian oligarchs.
(18) In fact, he had a slightly belligerent streak that came out when we first started hobnobbing with dealers and gallery owners.
(19) We know they're all pals, who head up governments, newspapers and big businesses, who hobnob together and horse-ride together.
(20) Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side is about the time he spent hobnobbing with New York hipsters in The Factory: Holly came from Miami, Florida Hitch-hiked her way across the USA Plucked her eyebrows on the way Shaved her legs and then he was a she She says, "Hey, babe Take a walk on the wild side" She said, "Hey, honey Take a walk on the wild side" That space is now a parking lot in the well-groomed Midtown district of Manhattan which is almost always vacant by 10pm, any night of the week.