hat
To place a hat on.
Noun
- A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
- There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls. - 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes,...
- Denzel walks. Will Smith walks. Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat! - 2009, “Cool Guys Don’t Look at Explosions”performed by Andy Samberg, Will Ferrell, and J. J. Abrams:
- A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
- It's all a matter of hats, Minister. - 1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Official Visit”, in Yes Minister, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds):
- My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother. - 1993, Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter,...
- Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
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(figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.
- We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.
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- A hat switch.
- The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls. - 2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, page 139:
- The circumflex symbol.
- The háček symbol.
- I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c”...
- The caret symbol ^.
- User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
- A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).
- I knew intimately all the 'Hats' in the University, and I was henceforth looked up to by the 'Caps,' as if my head had gained the height of every hat that I knew. - 1830, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter 32, in Paul...
Origin
From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), perhaps from a late PIE root Proto-Indo-European *kedʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”) or wanderwort. Cognate with North Frisian and Danish hat (“hat”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Finnish hattu (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀 (xaoda, “hat”), Persian خود (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.
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10-gallon hat Abraham Lincoln hat Akubra hat all hat and no cattle all hat and no cowboy Alpine hat America's Hat angel hat Asian conical hat asshat at the drop of a hat aureole hat Australian bush hat bad hat baseball hat Bavarian hat beach hat beat into a cocked hat beer hat black as my hat black as your hat black hat black top-hat transform bobble hat
Verb Entry 2
- To place a hat on.
- After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another. - 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:
- To appoint as cardinal.
- It was truly a breathtaking rise. From the quiet school, Pope Pius XI had jumped Father Verdier over the heads of innumerable Bishops, made him Archbishop of Paris. Soon he was to be hatted a Prince of the Church and...
- To shop for hats.
- We might just go hatting this afternoon […] - 1920, Katharine Metcalf Roof, The Great Demonstration, page 122:
- Watt's need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats. - 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
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Verb Northern England, Scotland
- simple past of hit