hobnob

Meanings

1. A toast made while touching glasses together.
2. A drinking together.
3. An informal chat.

1. To drink together.
2. To associate with in a friendly manner, often with those of a higher class or status; to fraternize.
3. To have or have not; to give or take.
4. To toast one another by touching glasses.

1. On friendly terms; in friendly association.

1. At random; at a venture; hit and miss.

Etymology

From hob and nob, hob or nob (“a phrase spoken when making a toast, possibly meaning ‘give and take’; to take turns toasting or buying rounds of drinks”) (archaic), from dialectal hab nab (“to have or have not, in the sense of an invitation to have a drink”), from Old English habban (“to have, possess”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to grab, seize”)) + nabban (“to not have”) (from ne (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”)) + habban).