hat
(noun) an informal term for a person’s role; “he took off his politician’s hat and talked frankly”
hat, chapeau, lid
(noun) headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
hat
(verb) put on or wear a hat; “He was unsuitably hatted”
hat
(verb) furnish with a hat
Source: WordNet® 3.1
HAT (plural HATs)
Initialism of highest astronomical tide.
(medicine, uncountable) Initialism of human African trypanosomiasis.
(electronics) Initialism of hardware attached on top: a kind of expansion board for the Raspberry Pi computer
• ATH, aht, tha
hat (plural hats)
A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
(figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
(figuratively) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
(figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.
(video games) A hat switch.
(typography, nonstandard, rare) The háček symbol.
(programming, informal) The caret symbol ^.
(internet slang) User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
(Cambridge University slang, obsolete) A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).
• (student and nobleman): gold hatband, tuft
• See also headgear
hat (third-person singular simple present hats, present participle hatting, simple past and past participle hatted)
(transitive) To place a hat on.
(transitive) To appoint as cardinal.
hat
(Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) simple past tense of hit
• ATH, aht, tha
Source: Wiktionary
Hat, a.
Definition: Hot. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Hat,
Definition: sing. pres. of Hote to be called. Cf. Hatte. [Obs.] "That one hat abstinence." Piers Plowman.
Hat, n. Etym: [AS. hæt, hætt; akin to Dan. hat, Sw. hatt, Icel. hattr a hat, höttr hood, D. hoed hat, G. hut, OHG. huot, and prob. to L. cassis helmet. Hood.]
Definition: A covering for the head; esp., one with a crown and brim, made of various materials, and worn by men or women for protecting the head from the sun or weather, or for ornament. Hat block, a block on which hats are formed or dressed.
– To pass around the hat, to take up a collection of voluntary contributions, which are often received in a hat. [Collog.] Lowell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
