The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deerstalker \Deer"stalk`er\, n.
One who practices deerstalking.
A close-fitting cap, usually woolen, such as is worn in deerstalking, having a low crown and visors both in front and back, and having earflaps which are usually worn tied together over the top; also called fore-and-after, deerstalker hat and deerstalker cap; a hunter's cap; formerly also used for any stiff, round hat. [Eng.]
Wiktionary
alt. A type of men's headwear, made of cloth with a plaid pattern, having two projecting brims (one at the front and one at the back) and earflaps which can be folded up and tied at the top. n. A type of men's headwear, made of cloth with a plaid pattern, having two projecting brims (one at the front and one at the back) and earflaps which can be folded up and tied at the top.
Usage examples of "deerstalker hat".
He was wearing his dressing gown, pyjama bottoms, and, for some unguessable reason, a deerstalker hat with flaps in place.
Perhaps he should get out his meerschaum pipe and his deerstalker hat from his Sherlock Holmes adventures on the holodeck.
The deerstalker hat was invented by a man called Sidney Paget, who did the illustrations for the original books.
Maybrick stepped forward, seething with impatience, only to curse under his breath when a young man in a dark coat and deerstalker hat left the Workman's Club, carrying a newspaper-wrapped parcel some six inches high and eighteen inches long.
He was wailing on the other side of the gate, a short man with a deerstalker hat and a long green woollen scarf wound several times round his neck.
He showed up looking like a nineteenth-century English squire, in checked tweed suit, complete with topcoat, shoulder-length cape, deerstalker hat, and smoking a curved briar pipe.
His hands were holding a pair of brown gloves on top of his walking stick and I could see a deerstalker hat on the seat next to him.
When you really thought about it, when you put on that old deerstalker hat and put that brilliant detective's mind to work, the answer wasn't all that difficult, was it?
He smoked a cigarette while he waited, and watched the local pond-life - a white guy in a leather deerstalker hat was dealing on the corner next to the Joy clothes shop, and from the Ritzy came a trio of trendy young black guys in sharp fawn leather jackets, with bleached blond hair and goatees.