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[From the phrase (drink) hob or nob, (toast) one another alternately, from obsolete and dialectal hab nab, have or have not, probably Middle English habbe, have; see have, + Middle English nabbe (contraction of ne habbe, have not) (Old English ne, not; see not) (habbe, have).]
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