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Snob Hill
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English
Etymology
en snob Nob Hill.
Proper noun
Snob Hill
en derogatory slang en @derogatory name for:Nob Hill neighborhood city/San Francisco s/California.
en 2019 Fodor's Travel Guides Fodor's San Francisco: with the Best of Napa & Sonoma Fodor's Travel 9781640971615 on https://books.google.com/books?id=C5GkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT150&dq=%22Snob+Hill%22&hl=&cd=13&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Snob%20Hill%22&f=false 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.”