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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ten-gallon hat
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He sticks to his guns and, for that reason alone, deserves a tip of the ten-gallon hat.
▪ He wore a white ten-gallon hat and black cowboy boots decorated with swastikas and stars.
▪ Mildred Fender was in sequins with large feather earrings and a ten-gallon hat.
WordNet
ten-gallon hat

n. a hat with a wide brim and a soft crown; worn by American ranch hands [syn: cowboy hat]

Usage examples of "ten-gallon hat".

I guess he thought no woman could resist big black boots and a ten-gallon hat.

Just as he was downing the last of it, he saw Wyatt Repp, grinning under his white ten-gallon hat.

I declined one, refused to let him take my ten-gallon hat and left hastily, so that they could collapse in each others' arms and weep while the need was still sharp.

I declined one, refused to let him take my ten-gallon hat and left hastily, so that they could collapse in each others’.

They did not see the man in a ten-gallon hat sitting behind the wheel of a red Chevrolet Nova parked near the Folcroft entrance.

He's got on a ten-gallon hat and tooled boots with the pants tucked in and he's got a gabardine shirt with white piping all over the chest.

It was molded in the shape of a cowboy, with an enormous paunch and ten-gallon hat.

Peter Matheson, looking tanned and fit, his Texas Ranger's badge pinned to his faded chambray shirt, swept his ten-gallon hat off his head, used it as he always did to beat the dust off his stained chaps.

He envisioned a miniature apparatus resting on the inner crown frame of a ten-gallon hat.

Approaching him from the cinder block building was a little humpbacked old man wearing a sweat-stained ten-gallon hat, overalls and cowboy boots.

A young blond woman in a black velvet pantsuit and ten-gallon hat carried a guitar to the stage.

The baby face glaring up at him from the gloom cast by the brim of a black ten-gallon hat looked too young to vote, let alone drink with full-grown men.

Might this old pal you handed my wire to have worn a ten-gallon hat and had a gold front tooth?