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high hat
1[ hahy hat ]
high-hat
2[ hahy-hat ]
verb (used with object)
- to snub or treat condescendingly.
adjective
- snobbish; disdainful; haughty.
high-hat
1adjective
- informal.snobbish and arrogant
verb
- informal.to treat in a snobbish or offhand way
noun
- informal.a snobbish person
- two facing brass cymbals triggered by means of a foot pedal
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Other Words From
- high-hatter noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of high hat1
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Example Sentences
Now try to imagine the song with the high-hat closed through the verse.
Ringo kept the high-hat open most of the time in those early songs.
He had already seen the one about how the kids put dynamite in the Captain's high hat.
There is also a hat to go with the evening costume—a high hat, which crushes in.
Already the boy could take a pair of rabbits out of a high hat, or change a bunch of carrots into a bowl of goldfish.
Mr. Lloyd George was just behind him, for once wearing the conventional high hat instead of his usual felt.
A shabbily-genteel individual, with a red nose and an old high hat, was sipping a quiet glass of ale alone at one end of the bar.
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