Definition of top hat
: a tall-crowned hat usually of beaver or silk
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Examples of top hat in a Sentence
He wore a top hat and tails.
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Their study of three fishermen — one of them wears a top hat! — is emblematic of so many early photographs in combining the inexplicable rightness of a fairy tale with the immediacy of something just around the corner.
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The man, wearing a top hat and fancy leather jacket, nonchalantly checks something on a wall before ambling back out of view at Living the Dream Ice Cream around 4:30 a.m., the video shows.
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Bono wore a top hat and acted the flamboyant master of ceremonies, even reviving his devilish MacPhisto character from the 1990s in a monologue that referenced President Trump and Kim Jong Un.
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Who is the woman in the top hat backstage at @TheTonyAwards?
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One dancer even dressed as Cher's best friend, Dionne, in her equally-famous blue plaid skirt suit and straw top hat.
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But the show turns up pictures, especially still-lifes, whose lyricism is as surprising as birds escaping a magician’s top hat.
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Another donned a top hat as the admiring crowd watching the procession to the chapel cheered the lucky guests.
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Hitt observed the lawyer’s tall, folksy charisma in all its ragged glory, from his dusty black shoes to the silk top hat in which Lincoln carried his case notes.
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First Known Use of top hat
1879
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Definition of top hat for English Language Learners
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: a tall, usually black hat that is worn by men on very formal occasions
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