Snob Hill en · PROPN
Etymology
Blend of snob + Nob Hill.
Meanings
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(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: