Definition of (hat) in English English dictionary
- Gordie Howe hat trick
- An achievement of a goal, and assist, and participation in a fight, within one game
- Gordie Howe hat tricks
- plural form of Gordie Howe hat trick
- Medicine Hat
- a town in Alberta, Canada
- Panama hat
- A type of brimmed hat from South America, originally made with straw
- Santa hat
- A red and white hat associated with Santa Claus, with a white bobble on top
- all hat and no cattle
- Full of big talk but lacking action, power, or substance; pretentious
Yew certainly are. All hat and no cattle.
- at the drop of a hat
- without any hesitation; instantly
We're expected to just do it at the drop of a hat - no notice or anything. It's disgraceful.
- bad hat
- naughty maker of mischief
- black hat
- A Haredi Jew; a member of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community
- black hat
- A villain or bad guy in a story, especially in a Western (a film or other work of the Western genre)
- black hat hacker
- someone who hacks his way into a system in order to cause damage or steal data, passwords etc
- bowler hat
- A hard round black felt hat with a narrow brim; no longer commonly worn
- bucket hat
- A casual hat often worn at the beach, with a wide brim
- cocked hat
- A hat with the brim turned up to form two or three points; a bicorn or tricorn
- coon-skin hat
- Alternative form of coonskin cap
- coonskin hat
- Alternative form of coonskin cap
- cowboy hat
- A broad-brimmed hat worn by cowboys, ranchers, and farmers, common in the western United States and Mexico
- deerslayer hat
- Alternative form of deerstalker hat
- deerstalker hat
- A type of men's headwear, made of cloth with a plaid pattern, having two projecting brims (one at the front and one at the back) and earflaps which can be folded up and tied at the top
Two famous fictional characters who wore deerstalker hats were Sherlock Holmes and Holden Caulfield in J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.
- eat one's hat
- Used in a result clause to express disbelief in the conditional clause proposition
He said he would eat his hat if more than ten people came. He'd better fetch a knife and fork!.
- gray hat
- In the computer security community, a skilled hacker who sometimes acts legally and in good will and sometimes not. They are a hybrid between "white hat" and "black hat" hackers. They hack for no personal gain, and do not have malicious intentions, but do commit crimes
- grey hat
- Alternative spelling of gray hat
- hard hat
- A helmet, usually made from rigid plastic, used on construction sites to protect the head from falling objects
- hat
- A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration
- hat hair
- An accidental hairdo resulting from the wearing of a hat
- hat over the windmill
- Alternative form of cap over the windmill
- hat parade
- A parade in which people all wear hats, especially comical ones
- hat rack
- A piece of furniture used to store hats and clothing on, consisting of a pole with pegs on a moderately broad base; a hatstand
- hat racks
- plural form of hat rack
- hat tournament
- A tournament format for any team sport or game in which the teams are determined by randomly dividing up the participants into appropriately sized groups
- hat trick
- Striking out three times in one game
Jones got a hat trick yesterday. Let's see if he can do something today.
- hat-rack
- Alternative spelling of hat rack
- hi-hat
- A pair of cymbals as part of a drum kit that clash together when actuated by the foot pedal
- high-hat
- disdainful; haughty
- high-hat
- A person claiming to be superior
- old hat
- Something uninteresting, hackneyed, or passé due to overuse or long-standing familiarity
Based on the size of the crowd, perhaps the queen is old hat.
- old hat
- Something with which one is very familiar, or in which one is experienced or skilled
Coward is such an old hand at this kind of thing that he makes it seem old hat.
- old hat
- Something widely or long practiced, known, or accepted; something conventional
It is old hat for a sex scandal to bring down a politician.
- party hat
- A simple hat worn at parties, usually conical and made of cardboard
- pass the hat
- To ask for money, especially from a group of people; to solicit donations or contributions
The institutions are opening development offices, hiring professional fund raisers, investing in slick billion-dollar campaigns, and trotting out their presidents to pass the hat.
- plug hat
- May be a top hat or a bowler hat
- pope hat
- The mitre worn by popes
She was dressed in purple and had the Pope hat and everything.
- slouch hat
- A broad brimmed felt hat worn by soldiers, often with a clasp on the left side to allow a rifle to be carried over the shoulder
- stovepipe hat
- A type of top hat worn mainly in the 19th century, made of silk or other materials and having a very tall, cylindrical, flat-topped crown
One long, lanky man, with long hair and a big white fur stovepipe hat on the back of his head, and a crooked-handled cane, marked out the places.
- straw hat
- A stiff hat, with a flat crown and a brim, made from woven straw
- take one's hat off to
- To remove one's hat as a sign of respect to
- talk through one's hat
- To speak lacking expertise, authority, or knowledge; to invent or fabricate facts
Did he, though, Lady Lawless? That's good. Well, I guess he was only talking through his hat..
- throw one's hat in the ring
- To announce one's candidacy in a contest
At that time her chances had been excellent. But then two other people had thrown their hats in the ring, Joan Voller and Sidney Hamilton, and both of them were colleagues on State Executive.
- throw one's hat into the ring
- Alternative form of throw one's hat in the ring
- throw one's hat over the windmill
- Alternative form of throw one's cap over the windmill
- tin-foil hat
- A piece of headgear made from one or more sheets of tin foil, aluminium foil, or other similar material, the hats worn in the belief that they act to shield the brain from such influences as electromagnetic fields, or against mind control and/or mind reading
- tinfoil hat
- A piece of headgear made from one or more sheets of tin foil, aluminium foil, or other similar material, the hats worn in the belief that they act to shield the brain from such influences as electromagnetic fields, or against mind control and/or mind reading
To prevent them from reading his mind, he wore a tinfoil hat at all times.
- tip of the hat
- A gesture of acknowledgement; often, an expression of gratitude
- tip one's hat
- To acknowledge or show respect; to honor
I tip my hat to whoever invented the root beer float.
- tip one's hat
- To briefly remove or tap one's hat as a gesture of greeting, deference, or respect
- top hat
- A man's formal hat, with a tall cylindrical crown (often of silk)
- tri-corn hat
- A type of tricorn, or three cornered hat, as worn by the guardia civil in Spain
- under one's hat
- Concealed; confidential; secret
Orestes Jones kept his real ambitions under his hat until the time struck.
- white hat
- A white hat hacker
- white hat hacker
- A hacker who is legally authorized to use otherwise illegal means to achieve objectives critical to the security of computer systems, for example, someone hired to execute a penetration test upon a network to produce a report for its administrator about vulnerabilities and solutions to the networks security
- white hat hacker
- A hacker who is ethically opposed to the abuse of computer systems
- wideawake hat
- A broad-brimmed hat worn by American Quaker men in the 18th and 19th centuries