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HOBNOB
Definition of HOBNOB
noun
A toast made while touching glasses together.
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Where it comes from
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).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HOBNOB in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far. 34 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 110, 7 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 111, 8 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 110, 7 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HOBNOB starts with H and ends with B. Sorted, its letters read BBHNOO - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and B appear more than once.
Words that start HOBNOB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HOBNOB?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 110 - and most players walked straight past it.
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