"Hob and nob" Definition

Definitions for the word "Hob and nob" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. slang
to act in concert with another; to lay “heads together;” to touch glasses in drinking; to fraternize in a convivial meeting or merry-making. Originally meaning “foot and head,”—the touching of the top of one glass with the bottom of another, and then reversing the order. Nowadays it means simply to clink glasses together as a salutation before imbibing.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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