hat 
hat (hat)
hat in hand
pass the hat
☆take one's hat off to
talk through one's hat
☆throw one's hat into the ring
under one's hat
☆hat
n.
Types of hats and hatlike coverings include: for men: cap, service cap, forage cap, baseball cap, visor, beanie, skullcap, yarmulke, kipa, overseas cap, derby, straw hat, Panama hat, felt hat, sombrero, cowboy's hat, Stetson, southwestern, ten-gallon hat, top hat, opera hat, crush hat, stovepipe, tall silk hat, collapsible, topper, miter, bowler, leghorn, tam-o'-shanter, beret, cocked hat, tricornered hat, sailor hat, boater, digger, bycocket, fez, turban, shako, kepi, bearskin, coonskin, tarboosh, toque, busby, sun helmet, pith helmet, mortarboard, soft-brimmed hat, fedora, homburg, deerstalker, domino; for women: hood, wimple, snood, cowl, kerchief, picture hat, mantilla, turban, veil, cloche, calot, straw, skimmer, beret, bandanna, toque, mobcap, Talbot, bonnet, poke bonnet, Louise Bourbon, Princesse Eugénie, Descat, pillbox, Gainsborough, scarf, chapel cap, whimsey, babushka.
pass the hat
take one's hat off to
talk through one's hat*
throw one's hat into the ring
under one's hat*
Converse of object
- wear: Good job I'm wearing the cricket hat else I'd be fried.
- brim: His face was cast into shadow by a wide brimmed hat, also brown.
- don: The 29 residents and visitors donned union flag hats and enjoyed a party at the housing scheme in Barley Croft.
- knit: Knit clothes for your children, yourself, friends and family, or knit hats for cancer patients and clothes for premature babies.
Adjective modifier
- wooly: Clive becomes first of 4 people to lose their wooly hats.
- straw: Beneath his straw hat the hard grooves of his face told of years under the sun.
- wide-brimmed: Wear wide-brimmed hats with at least a 3 " brim or a legionnaires hat with a flap in the back.
- silly: And I would not like to spend a weekend with drunk idiots in silly hats.
- broad-brimmed: There is the red shirt and long black beard of Olivier, which blows as he stands, his broad-brimmed hat in his hand.
- floppy: A floppy, cotton hat can be an appreciated item on a hot, sunny day.
Modifies a noun
- trick: Keeping up the hat trick theme they will all have new releases out on 28th August.
Noun used with modifier
- bowler: The stout man has thrown his hard bowler hat fully on his face.
- cowboy: The girls turned out in fine form wearing all sorts of fancy dress from big pants to cowboy hats.
- beanie: He also had a blue beanie hat pulled down and the collar of his jacket was pulled up.
- bobble: Mind you, I'd tip my wooly bobble hat to anyone who can cope with the Karrimor.
- trilby: I was then discharged at Oulton Broad with a pin stripe suit and a green pork pie trilby hat.
- panama: I saw him in the sunlight wearing a white suit and a panama hat.
Possessives
- jester: Lots of children dressed-up, and most adults sporting at least a jester's hat with bells.
Preposition: with
- brim: Polar fleece headband, wool hat, or balaclava for the night, and sun hat with brim for the day.
All hat and no cattle.
Since no normal humble man can help but feel magnificent in a brand-new suit of clothes, it is not surprising that those who don a fresh suit of bright white linen every day should feel magnificent always. Nor is it surprising that a normal humble head should swell beneath a solar topee, since a topee is more a badge of authority than a hat, as is the hat of a soldier.
Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Of simple beautyand rustic health.
He can't think without his hat.
Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.
There lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour.
Grab your coat, and get your hat, Leave your worry on the doorstep, Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.
Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home to Me.
It is difficult to live up to one's poster When I pass my name in large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.
The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
There was a fine gentle wind, and Mr Pickwick's hat rolled sportively before it. The wind puffed, and Mr Pickwick puffed, and the hat rolled over and over as merrilyas a lively porpoise in a strong tide.
My common conversation I do acknowledge austere, my behaviour full of rigor, sometimes not without morosity; yet at mydevotion I loveto usethe civility of my knee, my hat, and hand, withall thoseoutward and sensiblemotions which may express or promote my invisible devotion.
Shabby gentility has nothing so characteristic as its hat.
I'm puttin'on my top hat Tyin'up my white tie Brushin'off my tails
You have got to be a Queen to get away with a hat like that.
I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs Perceived the scene, and foretold the restö I too awaited the expected guest. He, the young man carbuncular, arrives, A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare, One of the low on whom assurance sits As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.
Year's endö still in straw hat and sandals
I opened a tin of Bologna sausage and broke a cake of chocolate, and that was all I had to eat. It may sound offensive, but I ate them together, bite by bite, by way of bread and meat. All I had to wash down this revolting mixture was neat brandy; a revolting beverage in itself. But I was rare and hungry; ate well, and smoked one of thebestcigarettesinmyexperience.Then Iput a stonein my straw hat, pulled the flap of my fur cap over my neck and eyes, put my revolver ready to hand, and snuggled well down among the sheepskins.
Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by.
We looked! Then we saw him step in on the mat! We looked! And we saw him! The Cat in the Hat!
The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all thatö No, no! They can't take that away from me!
Under theblack hat, when Ihad first seenthem, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose anoldmandecayed inhisintellects.Ifayoungor middle- aged man, when leaving a company, does not recollect where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered inanold man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say,'His memory isgoing.'
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