old hat

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adjective

old-fashioned; dated.

trite from having long been used or known.

Origin of old hat

First recorded in 1745–55

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Related Words for old hat

dated, old-fashioned, outmoded, has-been, old-school

British Dictionary definitions for old hat

old hat

adjective

(postpositive) old-fashioned or trite

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Word Origin and History for old hat

adj.

"out of date," first recorded 1911. As a noun phrase, however, it had different sense previously. The "Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" (1796) defines it as, "a woman's privities, because frequently felt."

old hat in Culture

old hat

Obsolete, old-fashioned: “Get with it, Murray; your methods are strictly old hat.”