Snob Hill

proper noun

Derogatory name for Nob Hill: a neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. derogatoryslangDerogatory 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

Blend of snob + Nob Hill.

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APA

Snob Hill. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Snob%20Hill

MLA

“Snob Hill.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Snob%20Hill. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Snob Hill,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Snob%20Hill.

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