hat

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. cap, headgear, bonnet; headdress; derby, bowler; turban, cloche. See clothing.

- pass the hat

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. headgear, cap, millinery, headpiece, helmet, chapeau, bonnet, lid*, roof*, bean pod*; see also helmet .

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,

Syn. take up a collection, gather funds, collect; see accumulate 1 ,

• take one's hat off to,

Syn. salute, cheer, congratulate; see praise 1 .

• talk through one's hat*,

Syn. chatter, talk nonsense, make foolish statements; see babble .

• throw one's hat into the ring,

Syn. enter a contest, run for office, enter politics; see campaign 1 .

• under one's hat*,

Syn. confidential, private, hidden; see secret 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

cap, chapeau, headgear, headdress, *lid.

WORD FIND

• Australian cowboy hat with brim turned up on one side: bush hat

• bejeweled, decorated skullcap for evening wear, weddings: Juliet

• beret with pompom in the middle: tam, tamo-shanter

• bowler: derby

• box: bandbox

• brimless, round, small hat of 1920s: pillbox

• collapsible opera hat: gibus

• cowboy: Stetson, ten-gallon hat

• Crockett’s, Davy: coonskin cap

• derby: bowler

• French Foreign Legion cap with havelock: kepi, Legionnaire’s

• graduate’s square with tassel: mortarboard

• high-domed hat worn by English police: bobby

• high-domed hat worn by polo players: chukka

• Jewish embroidered skullcap: yarmulka

• knitted winter hat: watch cap

• knitted winter hat with a long tail sometimes fitted with pompom: stocking cap

• marching band’s tall hat with feather cockade: shako

• Mexican broad hat made of straw or felt: sombrero

• pancakelike cap: beret, tam

• pith helmet: topee

• scarf wound around head: turban

• Scottish Highland Military’s creased cloth cap with badge and black ribbons: glengarry

• seventeenth-century tall black hat, silver buckle: Puritan

• Sherlock Holmes’s tweed hat: deerstalker

• snap-brim hat with low, flat crown: porkpie

• snap-brim hat with puffed crown: newsboy

• soft, domelike hat pulled down over forehead, for women: cloche

• soft, felt hat creased down middle of crown: fedora, homburg

• soft hat that can be crushed, carried in pocket: crusher

• stovepipelike hat with tall crown, silky finish: top hat

• straw hat, man’s: Panama

• straw hat with oval crown: boater, picture hat

• straw, parasol-like hat worn by Chinese: coolie

• straw, yellow and broad: leghorn

• tall, fur hat worn by British army: busby

• three-cornered: tricorne

• Turkish hat shaped like truncated cone, decorated with tassel: fez

• World War II folding dress cap, olive or khaki-colored: garrison cap

see cap