high hat
noun
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- a variation of hi-hat.
high hat
1 American
[hahy hat]
/ ˈhaɪ ˌhæt /
high-hat
2
American
[hahy-hat]
/ ˈhaɪˈhæt /
verb (used with object)
high-hatted,
high-hatting
adjective
high-hat
1
British
adjective
verb
noun
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informal a snobbish person
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two facing brass cymbals triggered by means of a foot pedal
high hat
2
British
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of high hat1
First recorded in 1885–90
Origin of high-hat2
First recorded in 1915–20; v., adj. use of high hat
Example Sentences
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"I get dressed up in my full regalia - lab coat, rosette and two foot high hat - and go door-to-door asking for signatures," he says.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2023
I was so inspired by Clyde’s rhythms that in a couple of years my tapping grew into drum sticks with a full drum set of high hat, cymbals, bass and snare drums, with lessons.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2019
That shifts the whole thing and that also shifts the drummer, because now on the high hat, he’s got different work to do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2017
At dawn, Belushi signaled the end of the set by collapsing on the high hat.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2016
Oh, to wear such a great coat with large buttons and a velvet collar and a squashed-down high hat with a ribbon cockade in the band!
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
My eyes digest the immensity of fallen trees bracketing the trail, the high-hat shaped fungi that spring from trunks and the thick folds of lichen hanging from branches that obscure the far-off canopy.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2021
“My heart cold as the moon,” Freejacob raps over a high-hat that ticks like clockwork.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2020
The artist’s new EP opens with a set of interlocking rhythms connecting a four-on-the-floor bass drum, vibraphone-suggestive mid-range loops, a conga in the background and some crazy high-hat action.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2019
But that’s abruptly deflated, back to plinks and high-hat taps.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2016
“Aren’t we getting pretty high-hat with guest lists, and all?”
From Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays by Carr, Annie Roe
She was moving along with us, her face peering over the half-lowered window, growing suspicious of movie stars who high-hatted their fans.
From Time Magazine Archive
The high-hatted critic of the London Times meditated upon Durante's nose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later, driving through Cambridge with his high-hatted entourage, Edward of Wales espied a man in a boater as battered as his own, waved his bedraggled straw.
From Time Magazine Archive
The handsome, high-hatted romantic poured out novels as naturally and easily as she breathed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anyone not an Englishman is upon landing likely to notice an elderly, gray-haired, high-hatted English gentleman who looks like a retired army officer or cleric and who generally carries an umbrella.
From The Secrets of the German War Office by Graves, Dr. Armgaard Karl
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