Definition of top hat
: a tall-crowned hat usually of beaver or silk
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He wore a top hat and tails.
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Tschida, who grew up in Alpine and is a 2000 graduate of Granite Hills High School, was awarded a small key to the community of Alpine, a purple sash declaring her mayor and a black top hat as symbols of her new status.
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The other has woodwork pieces, including two birdhouses, a small Christmas tree and a snowman painted white sporting a top hat and red bow tie.
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The performance also featured male backup dancers wearing tuxedos with tails and top hats, just like in both Marilyn’s and Madonna’s performances.
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There’s also a fanciful hat shop created by proprietor Ron McKeever that displays coachman top hats, bowlers, newsboy hats and fedoras.
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In Dupont Circle on Friday morning, supporters and fans came out in winter coats and top hats for the ceremony.
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The history of musical theatre can be seen as a race—like Eliza across the ice—against the bloodhounds of operetta, with the European formula always lying in wait to recapture the runaway, twirling a mustache and wearing a top hat.
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Also turning heads was Yoko Ono: the icon celebrated her 85th birthday in a sharp top hat.
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Trump's shamelessness has filtered down into society, much like the apocryphal story about John F. Kennedy eschewing the tradition of top hats.
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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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