cowboy hat

noun

: a wide-brimmed hat with a large soft crown

called also ten-gallon hat

Examples of cowboy hat in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Each section of the famed hall had its handful of guys wearing snappy button Western shirts and gals wearing loud cowboy hats, like goths sporting black mascara at a My Chemical Romance Halloween gig. —Adam Gold, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025

Making a U-turn, Akerlund ventures to Botswana on the southern tip of Africa to visit a tribe of metalheads who sport leather jackets and cowboy hats and roar around on motorcycles blasting Metallica. —Paul Liberatore, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025

Crystalline skyscrapers and cowboy hats abound in the city known for cattle drives, cheerleaders, and oil family soap operas. —Nathanael Gassett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025

Get your cowboy hats and put your boots on the ground for an event filled with bull riding, mutton busting and bronc riding. —Marcus Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1882, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for cowboy hat

• acrobat
• autocrat
• automat
• bundesrat
• bureaucrat
• butterfat
• caveat
• chemostat
• copycat
• cryostat
• democrat
• diplomat