hat
/hat
/noun
1A shaped covering for the head worn for warmth, as a fashion item, or as part of a uniform: a black straw hat a woolly hat...
- We walk away from the smattering of polo insiders wearing baseball caps and woolly hats, watching a practice game.
- Turn out your cupboard for old straw sunhats, berets, baseball caps and felt hats.
- There were felt hats and straw hats, decorated with feathers and flowers, ribbon and lace.
Synonyms
British informal titfer
1.1Used to refer to a particular role or occupation of someone who has more than one: wearing her scientific hat she is director of a pharmacology research group...
- Life can be busy with many different roles and hats to put on and take off again.
- Wearing all her various hats and wearing them well, Paula certainly fits the Burton bill.
- A Toastmaster Wears Many Hats. The Toastmaster is the host of the day and conducts the meeting (with the exception of the business portion).
Phrases
be all hat and no cattle
hat in hand
hats off to ——
keep something under one's hat
pass the hat round (or pass the hat)
pick something out of a hat
take one's hat off to
throw one's hat in (or into) the ring
Derivatives
hatful
/ noun (plural hatfuls) ...- I know now that I don't have to take hatfuls of wickets to impress.
- He was about nineteen feet tall and scored hatfuls of goals as a result, all of them headers.
- To a large extent, Ireland were masters of their own downfall, making countless errors and conceding a hatful of penalties.
hatless
/ adjective ...- The man came out of the darkness, impeccable as always in his well-styled coat - hatless this time, he noted, in spite of the wind.
- Until the 1950s, many women would go hatless in their own quartier, something they would not do if they were to go beyond its informal limits.
- It was very hot in the Brazilian sun on a hatless balding head.
hatted
[in combination]: a bobble-hatted skier...
- Oh, this fills my head with such wonderful images of respectable, gloved, hatted ladies exchanging filthy pictures over supper.
- She smiled, thinking of the hard hatted woman who must have written it there.
- Such sea changes in men's attire invariably occur with a nod or a frown from a head of state, whether hatted or not.
Origin
Old English hætt, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse hǫttr 'hood', also to hood1.