单词 | hat rack |
释义 | hat rackn. 1. A rack or free-standing post, usually fitted with hooks or pegs, on which hats (and often also coats, jackets, etc.) may be hung. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > hat peg hat rack1828 surplice pin1833 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > [noun] > hat-stand hat stand1805 hat tree1819 hat rack1828 1828 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 26 Jan. A quantity of household furniture, such as 1 pair handsome Pier Tables.., Hat Rack, Bedsteads. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxxi. 330 A sort of vestibule, where they used to keep the hat-rack. 1931 Pop. Mech. Aug. 322/2 (caption) To save space, this convenient hat rack is stapled to inside of closet door. 1971 R. Allen Suedehead v. 36 A nearby hat rack held a collection of spotless bowlers and one lonely fedora. 2009 L. Moore in New Yorker 6 July 72/3 ‘Here, let me take your coat,’ Sarah Brink said..and headed across the foyer to hang it on a hat rack. 2. U.S. slang. An emaciated animal, esp. a horse or cow.With reference to the resemblance of the animal's protruding bones to the pegs of a hat rack (sense 1). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > [noun] > unhealthy animal wastrel1819 frame1848 hat rack1891 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > physical condition or types of > horse in poor condition > thin horse tacky1800 weed1826 rack1878 hat rack1891 rack of bones1949 1891 Boston Daily Globe 6 May 9/8 Some of the old ‘hat racks’, thin cattle brought prices which one year ago drovers paid about same price for choice. 1912 Adventure July 476/1 I thought you had your old hat-rack all ready to gallop to Burke's? 1935 Amer. Speech 10 271/1 Hatrack, an old, thin cow, a nellie or canner. 1979 B. Garfield Wild Times viii. 295 Two or three boneyard brokers had journeyed to Pueblo Candelas to bid for these castoffs and I heard one of them say.., ‘Them hat racks is a real buy—all lean meat.’ 3. U.S. slang. The head; the mind. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun] nolleOE headOE topa1225 copc1264 scalpa1300 chiefc1330 crownc1330 jowla1400 poll?a1400 testea1400 ball in the hoodc1400 palleta1425 noddle?1507 costard?1515 nab?1536 neck1560 coxcomb1567 sconce1567 now1568 headpiece1579 mazer1581 mazardc1595 cockcomb1602 costrel1604 cranion1611 pasha1616 noddle pate1622 block1635 cranium1647 sallet1652 poundrel1664 nob1699 crany?1730 knowledge box1755 noodle1762 noggin1769 napper1785 garret1796 pimple1811 knowledge-casket1822 coco1828 cobbra1832 coconut1834 top-piece1838 nut1841 barnet1857 twopenny1859 chump1864 topknot1869 conk1870 masthead1884 filbert1886 bonce1889 crumpet1891 dome1891 roof1897 beanc1905 belfry1907 hat rack1907 melon1907 box1908 lemon1923 loaf1925 pound1933 sconec1945 nana1966 1907 Sunday Post (Boston) 26 May 26/1 (advt.) When your hat rack gets dizzy with a cyclone of delight and you suffer with a joy-bell hemorrhage, it's a sure sign you've got a brainstorm. 1923 Re-ly-on Bottler June 10/1 A ghost of an Idea began to Trickle through his Hatrack. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §121/56 Head,..hat rack. 1963 L. Hairston in Freedomways Winter 50 If you spent half as much time tryin' to put something inside that worthless hat-rack as you did havin’ your brains fryed. 2005 J. Lookadoo Dirt on Drugs 14 Use your hat rack and think about it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1828 |
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