hard hat

\ usually -ˈhat for sense 1 and, -ˌhat for senses 1b and 2

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Definition of hard hat

1a : a protective hat made of rigid material (such as metal or fiberglass) and worn especially by construction workers

b : a construction worker

2 : a conservative who is intolerant of opposing views

Examples of hard hat in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web A day after news broke of their split, Livia shared a hilarious video of herself ducking for cover under a desk while wearing a white hard hat. — Morgan M. Evans, PEOPLE.com, "Colin Firth and Wife Livia Spend New Year's Eve Together Amid Split," 1 Jan. 2020 Crane arrived back in the lobby minutes later, adorning a hard hat and construction vest while accompanying the other owners to a tour of the Texas Rangers’ new ballpark construction site. — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, "Astros owner Jim Crane won't address MLB investigation," 20 Nov. 2019 The forklift driver, who does not speak English, quietly stood at the corner wearing a hard hat. — Megan O'matz, sun-sentinel.com, "Driver killed in crash with forklift at Fort Lauderdale beach," 17 Nov. 2019 Workers in orange vests and hard hats paced the trackway, removing orange traffic cones and clearing debris. — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, "Muni prepares for big crowds with expanded platform near Chase Center," 6 Aug. 2019 One of the iconic symbols of the school is a miners’ hard hat. — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, "Kiszla: In marvel of Mines engineering, 230-pound linebacker runs like Usain Bolt in 42-0 victory against Fort Lewis," 19 Oct. 2019 Wyatt Dillon, another Deerfield preschooler who was there with parents Ben and Emily Dillon, was wearing the plastic hard hat handed out by a tree care company displaying a 55-foot-tall tree-trimming apparatus. — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, "Deerfield welcomes fall at Harvest Fest," 30 Sep. 2019 At any given time, there are about 225 workers on the job site — the whereabouts of all of them tracked with an app that gets data from a chip attached to the back of their hard hats. — Tim Reynolds, sun-sentinel.com, "Beckham’s Fort Lauderdale stadium complex for Inter Miami taking shape," 22 Oct. 2019 Water droplets slipping from ore-bearing rock above plunked on my hard hat. — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, "I spent a night with ghost hunters in a Colorado gold mine and lived to tell this tale," 11 Oct. 2019

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“Hard hat.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard%20hat. Accessed 18 January 2020.

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