ten-gallon hat

noun

: cowboy hat

Examples of ten-gallon hat in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And although the sudden abundance of ten-gallon hats might be part of a larger promotional strategy, Beyoncé isn’t the only celebrity to make a sartorial pivot west. —Leah Dolan, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024

The look hinges on a white ten-gallon hat and a black-and-silver checker print suit jacket layered a white collared shirt and matching studded shorts cinched with a black YSL belt. —Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 5 Feb. 2024

So will the American West aesthetic of ten-gallon hats, Nudie-ish suits, and cowboy boots trickle down to the masses? —Suzie Lechtenberg, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2024

With his walrus mustache and ten-gallon hat, Fall would go on to earn the distinction of being the first cabinet secretary ever sentenced to jail, convicted in 1929 of taking bribes in the infamous Teapot Dome scandal. —Rebecca Boggs Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023

Trading his starched polo with a ten-gallon hat, and replacing his meek voice with a half-baked impression of Doc Holliday, Rodimer had refashioned himself as a cosplay cowboy—one who’d firmly back the kinds of illiberal, authoritarian policies swiftly rising in popularity on the Texas right. —Casey Michel, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2021

Elba, with his battered ten-gallon hat and 100-yard stare, remains a hard-nosed enigma for most of it, cagey and remote. —Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2021

Using those ten-gallon hats, Delos collected information and stored it in the Forge with the aim of copying human minds into host bodies, which, if successful, could effectively make those people immortal. —Scott Tobias, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2020

There were transparent, leopard-print latex dresses with visible black thongs underneath, ten-gallon hats and Texas-size belt buckles, short shorts, and python-print pencil skirts. —Channing Hargrove, refinery29.com, 8 Sep. 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1920, in the meaning defined above