sports cap
Britishnoun
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a hat designed for sports or to look sporty
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a special top for a bottle, designed to aid drinking without spilling
Example Sentences
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The Klean Kanteen is the easiest to clean of the bottles we tested and can be used with a sippy top, sports cap, or screw-on top.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2018
In our tests, when properly closed and capped, the sports cap secured the bottle from leaks.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2018
The wrestling debacle, however frustrating, was ultimately a very good thing: It took such an over-the-top screw-up to kill the sports cap.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2014
There were his cream-colored velour hat, his checkered sports cap, his ivory-handled cane, sent over from London by his psychoanalyst daughter Anna Freud.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He scratched his head under his porringer of a "sports" cap, looked round the big four-windowed room, and said, "Good light—south and east though—what?"
From The Debit Account by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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