hat
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hat/hat/
▶noun a shaped covering for the head, typically with a brim and a crown.
– phrases
hat in hand see cap in hand at cap1.
keep something under one's hat keep something a secret.
pass the hat round (or N. Amer. pass the hat) collect contributions of money.
pick something out of a hat select something at random.
take one's hat off to state one's admiration for.
talk through one's hat informal talk ignorantly.
throw one's hat into the ring express willingness to take up a challenge.
hat in hand see cap in hand at cap1.
keep something under one's hat keep something a secret.
pass the hat round (or N. Amer. pass the hat) collect contributions of money.
pick something out of a hat select something at random.
take one's hat off to state one's admiration for.
talk through one's hat informal talk ignorantly.
throw one's hat into the ring express willingness to take up a challenge.
– derivatives
hatful noun (pl. hatfuls),
hatless adjective,
hatted adjective.
hatful noun (pl. hatfuls),
hatless adjective,
hatted adjective.
'hat' also found in these Oxford entries:
balaclava
- balmoral
- beanie
- beaver
- billycock
- block
- boater
- bobble
- bonnet
- bowler
- brass hat
- brim
- busby
- cap
- caubeen
- chaplet
- chinstrap
- cloche
- cockade
- cocked hat
- coolie hat
- crown
- Derby
- doff
- Dolly Varden
- drop
- earth
- eat
- fedora
- fez
- gibus
- glengarry
- gnome
- hard hat
- hatband
- hatpin
- hat-trick
- helmet
- high hat
- hi-hat
- homburg
- hood
- hot
- leghorn
- lug
- mob cap
- old hat
- opera hat
- panama
