hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæt/
ipa: [hat]
ipa: [hɛt]
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: hats
Etymology: 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 hat (“hat”), Danish hat (“hat”), 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.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:
text: Denzel walks. Will Smith walks. Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat!
ref: 2009, “Cool Guys Don’t Look at Explosions”performed by Andy Samberg, Will Ferrell, and J. J. Abrams:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: 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.
examples: text: It's all a matter of hats, Minister.
ref: 1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Official Visit”, in Yes Minister, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds):
text: My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.
ref: 1993, Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter, Hal Leonard Corporation, published 2000, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
glosses: Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
examples: text: We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.
glosses: Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
The lottery or draw itself.
examples: text: The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.
ref: 2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, page 139:
topics: video-games
glosses: A hat switch.
examples: text: 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” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “hat.”
ref: 1997 October 6th, “Patricia V. Lehman” (user name), rec.antiques (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia”, Message ID: <34390399.BD7@umich.edu>#1/1
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The háček symbol.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The caret symbol ^.
glosses: User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1830, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter 32, in Paul Clifford:
qualifier: Cambridge University slang
glosses: A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).
Synonyms: sense: student and nobleman
word: gold hatband
sense: student and nobleman
word: tuft
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from hat (noun)
word: 10-gallon hat
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word: Abraham Lincoln hat
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word: Akubra hat
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word: all hat and no cattle
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word: all hat and no cowboy
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word: Alpine hat
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word: America's Hat
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word: angel hat
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word: Asian conical hat
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word: asshat
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word: at the drop of a hat
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word: aureole hat
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word: Australian bush hat
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word: bad hat
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word: baseball hat
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word: Bavarian hat
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word: beach hat
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word: beat into a cocked hat
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word: beer hat
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word: black as my hat
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word: black as your hat
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word: black hat
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word: black top-hat transform
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word: bobble hat
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word: bottom-hat transform
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word: bowler hat
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word: bowler hat out
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word: bowl hat
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word: brass hat
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word: brick in one's hat
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word: bucket hat
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word: buy yourself a hat
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word: campaign hat
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word: carpenter's hat
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word: cartwheel hat
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word: chimney-pot hat
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word: Chinese hat snail
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word: chip hat
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word: church hat
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word: cocked hat
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word: cocked hat curve
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word: cocked hat double
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word: cocktail hat
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word: Coke hat
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word: conical hat
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word: coolie hat
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word: coon-skin hat
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word: coonskin hat
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word: Cordovan hat
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word: cork hat
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word: Cossack hat
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word: cowboy hat
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word: cowgirl hat
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word: craphat
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word: crap hat
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word: crush hat
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word: Dappy hat
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word: Davey Crockett hat
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word: Davy Crockett hat
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word: deerslayer hat
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word: deerstalker hat
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word: does the Pope wear a funny hat
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word: doff one's hat to
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word: double-hat
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word: dunce hat
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word: eat one's hat
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word: fire shovel hat
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word: flat as my hat
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word: flat as your hat
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word: four winds hat
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word: fruit hat
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word: Gainsborough hat
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word: gimme hat
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word: give hat
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word: give someone his hat
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word: Gordie Howe hat trick
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word: gray hat
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word: grey hat
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word: gypsy hat
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word: halo hat
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word: hand someone his hat
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word: hang one's hat
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word: hang one's hat on
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word: hang onto your hat
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word: hang up one's hat
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word: hard hat
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word: hatband
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word: hat block
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word: hatbox
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word: hatbrim
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word: hatbrush
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word: hatcheck
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word: hat dance
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word: hatfish
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word: hatful
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word: hatguard
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word: hat hair
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word: hat head
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word: hatinator
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word: hat in hand
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word: hatiquette
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word: hatless
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word: hatlike
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word: hatmaker
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word: hatmaking
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word: hat matrix
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word: hatnote
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word: hat on a hat
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word: hat over the windmill
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word: hat palm
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word: hat parade
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word: hat peach
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word: hatpeg
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word: hatpin
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word: hat-rack
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word: hat rack
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word: hatrack
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word: hatrail
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word: hats off
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word: hat stand
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word: hatstand
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word: hat-stand
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word: hatstring
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word: hatter
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word: hat tip
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word: hattock
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word: hat tournament
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word: hat town
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word: hat tree
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word: hat trick
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word: hat-trick
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word: hatty
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word: have a brick in one's hat
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word: high-hat
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word: hi-hat
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word: hold onto your hat
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word: Homburg hat
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word: home is where you hang your hat
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word: inverted hat
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word: jim hat
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word: jimmy hat
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word: kettle hat
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word: knock into a cocked hat
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word: Kossuth hat
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word: lampshade hat
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word: legionnaire hat
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word: low-hat
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word: Medicine Hat
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word: Mexican hat
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word: Mexican hat cell
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word: Mexican hat dance
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word: Mexican hat plant
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word: Mickey Mouse hat
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word: moneyhatting
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word: mushroom hat
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word: old hat
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word: old-hat
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word: opera hat
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word: paddy hat
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word: Pamela hat
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word: Panama hat
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word: Panama hat palm
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word: paper hat
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word: party hat
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word: pass round the hat
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word: pass the hat
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word: pick from a hat
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word: pick out of a hat
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word: picture hat
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word: pillbox hat
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word: pink hat
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word: plug hat
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word: Polly Crockett hat
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word: pope hat
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word: porkpie hat
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word: pork pie hat
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word: pot hat
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word: pressman's hat
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word: printer's hat
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word: pull a rabbit from a hat
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word: pull a rabbit out of a hat
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word: pull out of a hat
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word: pull out of the hat
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word: pussy hat
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word: put a hat on a hat
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word: put one's name in the hat
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word: rain hat
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word: rainhat
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word: rasta hat
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word: red hat
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word: Red Hatter
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word: rice hat
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word: sailor hat
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word: Santa hat
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word: sauna hat
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word: sedge hat
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word: you Jimmy hat
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word: service hat
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word: shaving hat
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word: shovel hat
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word: ski hat
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word: slouch hat
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word: small hat
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word: steeple hat
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word: stovepipe hat
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word: straw hat
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word: straw-hat
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word: sunhat
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word: sun hat
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word: take one's hat off to
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word: talk through one's hat
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word: tembel hat
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word: ten-gallon hat
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word: terai hat
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word: throw into a cocked hat
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word: throw one's hat in the ring
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word: throw one's hat into the ring
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word: throw one's hat over the fence
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word: throw one's hat over the wall
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word: throw one's hat over the windmill
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word: throw one's name in the hat
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word: tin-foil hat
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word: tinfoil hat
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word: tin foil hat
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word: tin hat
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word: tip of the hat
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word: tip one's hat
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word: top hat
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word: top-hat pension
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word: top-hat plan
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word: top-hat transform
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word: toss one's hat in the ring
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word: toss one's hat into the ring
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word: toss one's name in the hat
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word: trapper hat
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word: triple-hat
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word: trucker hat
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word: turdhat
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word: Tyrolean hat
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word: under one's hat
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word: unhat
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word: wear too many hats
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word: wear two hats
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word: Welsh hat
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word: white hat
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word: white top-hat transform
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word: wide-awake hat
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word: wideawake hat
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word: witch hat
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word: witch's hat
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word: with hat in hand
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word: wizard hat
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word: wizard's hat
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word: woolhat
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word: woolly hat
Related terms: take one's hat off to