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Snob Hill

Snob Hill proper noun: derogatory name for Nob Hill: a neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

Proper noun

Snob Hill

  1. (derogatory, slang) Derogatory name for Nob Hill: a neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
    • […]and the hill itself was called Snob Hill, a term that survives to this day. By 1882 so many estates had sprung up on Nob Hill that Robert Louis Stevenson called it “the hill of palaces.”[2019, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's San Francisco: with the Best of Napa & Sonoma, Fodor's Travel, →ISBN

Origin of Snob Hill

Blend of snob + Nob Hill.

Questions about Snob Hill

What does Snob Hill mean?
Snob Hill means derogatory name for Nob Hill: a neighborhood of San Francisco, California.
What part of speech is Snob Hill?
Snob Hill is a proper noun.

Words near Snob Hill in the dictionary

  1. SNO-Hb
  2. Snoad
  3. snob
  4. snob effect
  5. snob effects
  6. Snob Hill
  7. snob value
  8. snobberies
  9. snobbery
  10. snobbier
  11. snobbiest

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