Snob Hill

English

Etymology

Blend of snob +‎ Nob Hill.

Proper noun

Snob Hill

1. (derogatory, slang) Nob Hill.
   • [2019, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's San Francisco: with the Best of Napa & Sonoma‎^[1], Fodor's Travel, →ISBN:

     […] 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.”]