hobnob

hobnob v 1. to mingle, usually with the upper class of society.

The verb hobnob originally meant “to drink together” 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."

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