(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.
Informal
Definition:
(a.) Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not according to official, conventional, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, without ceremony; as, an informal writting, proceeding, or visit.
(a.) Deranged in mind; out of one's senses.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
(2) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
(3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(4) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(5) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
(6) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(7) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(8) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(9) They suggest that an endogenous retinoid could contribute to positional information in the early Xenopus embryo.
(10) The control group received the same information in lecture form.
(11) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
(12) Much of the current information concerning this issue is from short-term studies.
(13) In addition, despite the fact that the differences constitutes an information bias, the bias occurs in the same direction and magnitude in all the various subgroups and thus is nondifferential.
(14) Current information suggests that arachidonic acid metabolites are involved in the development of cholecystitis.
(15) The presence of CR-related activity suggests that SpoV may participate in the CR motor output pathway, and may also provide CR-related information to cerebellum.
(16) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(17) Much information has accumulated on the isolation and characterization of a heterogeneous group of molecules that inhibit one or more of the bioactivities of interleukin 1.
(18) This can be achieved by sincere, periodic information through the mass media.
(19) Then, the informed permission of parents should be obtained.
(20) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.