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Definition of high hat in English: high hatnoun 1A tall hat, especially a top hat. Example sentencesExamples - The elaborate dress of the gentleman - walking stick, coat, high hat - clearly identified him and allowed for a form of class-based ridicule, rather than a gender-based attack on masculinity.
- They are often pictured as weird-looking skinny characters wearing high hats.
- He rented the high-hat and morning-suit finery at Moss Brothers and made the Ascot races on one of the days of high fashion.
- 1.1North American informal A snobbish or supercilious person.
3A silvery marine fish with longitudinal brown stripes and a long upright dorsal fin, found in shallow rocky waters of the Caribbean. Equetus acuminatus, family Sciaenidae
adjective North American informal Snobbish. people say you're getting very high-hat since you lived on Riverside Drive Example sentencesExamples - Forgive me if I sound high-hat - I don't think you can possibly understand it.
Synonyms arrogant, proud, haughty, conceited, lofty, aloof, disdainful, superior, self-important, supercilious, exclusive
verbhigh-hats, high-hatted, high-hatting North American informal with object Act in a snobbish or supercilious manner towards (someone) now that she had the ear of great men, Pamela high-hatted the old crowd Example sentencesExamples - Nevertheless the Glasgow waitress is most attentive and friendly. But heaven help the customer who attempts to high-hat her.
- A male servant answered in a clipped East Prussian-accented German that annoyed Metz. Where did this flunky get off trying to high-hat people with that accent?
- ‘If you talk like that,’ he was told, ‘they will think you are high-hatting them.’
Definition of high hat in US English: high hatnounˈhī ˌhat 1A tall hat, especially a top hat. Example sentencesExamples - He rented the high-hat and morning-suit finery at Moss Brothers and made the Ascot races on one of the days of high fashion.
- They are often pictured as weird-looking skinny characters wearing high hats.
- The elaborate dress of the gentleman - walking stick, coat, high hat - clearly identified him and allowed for a form of class-based ridicule, rather than a gender-based attack on masculinity.
- 1.1North American informal A snobbish or supercilious person.
2 variant spelling of hi-hat
adjectiveˈhī ˌhat North American informal Snobbish. people say you're getting very high-hat since you lived on Riverside Drive Example sentencesExamples - Forgive me if I sound high-hat - I don't think you can possibly understand it.
Synonyms arrogant, proud, haughty, conceited, lofty, aloof, disdainful, superior, self-important, supercilious, exclusive
verbˈhī ˌhat North American informal with object Act in a snobbish or supercilious manner toward (someone) now that she had the ear of great men, Pamela high-hatted the old crowd Example sentencesExamples - A male servant answered in a clipped East Prussian-accented German that annoyed Metz. Where did this flunky get off trying to high-hat people with that accent?
- Nevertheless the Glasgow waitress is most attentive and friendly. But heaven help the customer who attempts to high-hat her.
- ‘If you talk like that,’ he was told, ‘they will think you are high-hatting them.’
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