baseball cap

American  

noun

1. a close-fitting cap with a deep visor and usually the name or emblem of a baseball team, worn by baseball players, or by others as casual attire.

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baseball cap British  

noun

1. a close-fitting thin cap with a deep peak

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Example Sentences

He wears signature pastel- and highlighter-colored suits and sports baseball caps and sunglasses to host investor panels.

From Barron's

It was just a plain baseball cap at the time, but later that year, right before my birthday, it went missing from my room.

From Literature

Cooks in tie-dyed aprons and sky-blue baseball caps move in double time.

From The Wall Street Journal

A woman in a baseball cap breezes in.

From Literature

The army man, now a general, has, for the main, ditched the camouflage in favour of the baseball cap and tracksuit, or a boubou - traditional Guinean attire of loose-fitting robes with elaborate embroidery.

From BBC