porkpie

[pawrk-pahy, pohrk-]

noun

1. a snap-brimmed hat with a round, flat crown, usually made of felt.

Word History and Origins

Origin of porkpie¹

First recorded in 1725–35; pork + pie ¹

Example Sentences

As a figment of Charles’ imagination, Sazz is always in a suit and a porkpie hat.

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“Never judge a book by its contents,” quipped a wag in a porkpie hat as we both regarded the cover of an aging paperback guide to vitamins, for sale on a Broadway sidewalk.

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Some sly military-industrial complex humor creeps in as Oppenheimer, clad in his signature gray waistcoat and rumpled porkpie hat, leads this massively complicated undertaking at the surly behest of Col.

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But Murphy did offer up that they worked hard to get Oppenheimer’s look right, from the narrow silhouette to the pipe and the porkpie hat.

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“Looking like an American Joe College in sports clothes and a porkpie hat,” according to an Associated Press story.

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