Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1889, "tall hat;" also used synechdochically for men who wear such hats; figurative meaning "swelled head" is from 1923. Drum set sense is from 1934.
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High Hat is an album compiling tracks from Boy George's second and third UK and European solo albums, Tense Nervous Headache and Boyfriend.
High Hat is a 1937 American film directed by Clifford Sanforth.
High hat and variants may refer to:
- Top hat
- High Hat (album), Boy George compilation album
- High-hat triplefin, a species of fish in the genus Enneapterygius
- High Hat (1927 film)
- High Hat (film), a 1937 film
- Hi-hat, a type of cymbal and stand, developed for and used as one of the standard components of a drum kit
- Hi hat (photography), a type of fixed tripod
- Hi-Hat (choreographer) Nadine "Hi-Hat" Ruffin is a choreographer of hip-hop dance from New York City
- Hi Hat, Kentucky
- Hi-Hat, a performance hall in Boston at which the Jazz at the Hi-Hat album was recorded
High Hat is a 1927 American film directed by James Ashmore Creelman.
Usage examples of "high hat".
He was a shortish little man, and he wore a high hat, and he was running so fast that his legs verily twinkled.
Edwin, who from mere pride had said nothing to his sisters about the impending visit to the Dragon, was a little surprised and dashed to see Big James in broadcloth and a high hat.
The head of a gnome, his high hat doubled by a hat of snow, looked out over the drifted lawn, as he had been doing for years and years.
A shabbily-genteel individual, with a red nose and an old high hat, was sipping a quiet glass of ale alone at one end of the bar.
Oh, to wear such a great coat with large buttons and a velvet collar and a squashed-down high hat with a ribbon cockade in the band!
Todhunter dashed down his window with violence, and the man in the high hat melted into the sea-fog again.
A tall man in the uniform of the German Foreign Service appeared next, with a Japanese in a cutaway coat and high hat.