stocking cap
noun
: a long knitted cone-shaped cap with a tassel or pom-pom worn especially for winter sports or play
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The arrest has drawn widespread attention, as the child had just returned home from preschool with his father and was wearing a Spider Man backpack and blue stocking cap with bunny ears when detained.
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Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 31 Jan. 2026
Shaped like a teddy bear, the cup also has a green Starbucks stocking cap and a straw.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
Both of them wore their stocking caps pulled down beneath the hoods of their anoraks.
—Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
When Mitchell broke into the house, she was dressed in all black, with a black stocking cap, and carried items such as a covered flashlight and a prybar.
—Ingrid Harbo, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2025
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Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 31 Jan. 2026
Shaped like a teddy bear, the cup also has a green Starbucks stocking cap and a straw.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
Both of them wore their stocking caps pulled down beneath the hoods of their anoraks.
—Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
When Mitchell broke into the house, she was dressed in all black, with a black stocking cap, and carried items such as a covered flashlight and a prybar.
—Ingrid Harbo, Twin Cities, 24 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for stocking cap
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“Stocking cap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stocking%20cap. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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