Snob Hill
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- (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.”]