VERB (尤指和权贵人物)厮混,过从甚密 If you disapprove of the way in which someone is spending a lot of time with a group of people, especially rich and powerful people, you can say that he or she is hobnobbing with them.
This gave Bill an opportunity to hobnob with the company's president, board chairman, and leading executives. 这使得比尔有机会和公司的总裁、董事长以及那些主要行政主管们厮混在一起。
Fighting an all-consuming desire for chocolate HobNobs or strawberry ice cream can have consequences ranging from simple memory lapses to car crashes, say scientists. 科学家们说,对HobNob巧克力或者蓝莓冰激凌念念不忘能够从简单的记忆错误到车祸等后果。