Definition of "nob" []

• Slang The human head. (noun)
• The jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer in cribbage, scoring one point for the holder. (noun)
• Chiefly British Slang A person of wealth or social standing: "The nobs were forever snubbing the snobs” ( Conor Cruise O'Brien). (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The term nob is an old fashioned term for a socially exalted person. ""
• "Thats the fatherless who called my nob smal when i was on the RTI stage of THEM, didnt break me though."
• "I love cooking, worked my way through Jamie Oliver's books (and still have no idea what a "nob" of butter is), worship Ruth Reichl, and find myself somehow counter-intuitively glued to the Food Network while at the gym."