snob v.
1. to snub, to ignore, to treat disdainfully.
Billy Baxter’s Letters 🌐 We also sent a copy to His Royal Highness, Albert, Prince of Wales, and, having heard nothing from him, it now looks as though Al were going to snob us. | ||
Manchild in the Promised Land (1969) 223: He started snobbing the old crowd. | ||
Danny Boy 100: The Portugees in good jobs snob them who live in Albuoystown, and the former, in turn, is snobbed by the high-brows. | ||
Totally True Diaries of an Eighties Roller Queen 🌐 20 Sept.–2 Nov. At the end of the dance I said goodbye to him and he just snobbed away and didn’t say a word. I tried calling him the rest of the weekend but he wasn’t home. |
2. (US) to associate with upper-class people.
Where the Boys Are 9: A lot of them go to Bermuda and Nassau to snob around. | ||
Life 202: Suddenly we were being courted by half the aristocracy [...] I’ve never known if they were slumming or we were snobbing. |