HOB'NOB, adverb Take, or not take; a familiar invitation to reciprocal drinking. Hobson's choice, a vulgar proverbial expression, denoting without an alternative. It is said to have had its origin in the name of a person who let horses and coaches, and obliged every customer to take in his turn that horse which stood next the stable door.
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