porkpie hat
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The tough-guy role, for which he donned a porkpie hat, was modeled after New York Police Det.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
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.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
Careful ballpoint waves cross most of the eight small drawings in this intriguing presentation, always slightly off center, the way you’d cock a porkpie hat.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2020
In the back of the dark hall, before the show started, Bolz-Weber ran into Doug Pagitt, a progressive evangelical pastor, who was wearing a porkpie hat.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
Either way, Cool Papa’s porkpie hat would fly out to the train tracks, where Clayton would have no hope of getting it back.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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