top hat

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Recent Examples of top hat People approach their days differently; in one of the private enclosures, three old boys in full old-school suits and top hats sit and peruse their racecards and newspapers, smoking cigars and barely saying a word. Tim Spiers, New York Times, 20 June 2025 While his bandmates pranced around the stage with black dildos bobbing from their noses and top hats jauntily cocked, Forrest would open the show in a Joker-esque getup, holding a flaming Bible. Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2025 And like Walt Disney hosted Disney’s early TV ventures, there’s Cole – dressed in a banana-yellow tuxedo and top hat – serving as an on-field emcee. Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 5 June 2025 Gregg Donovan, who wore a red suit and top hat, stood in front of the federal facility with a sign welcoming the Marines. Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for top hat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for top hat
Noun
  • Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.
    Whitney Friedlander, Vulture, 14 May 2021
Noun
  • The video shows the male suspect appearing calm and casual, wearing a white t-shirt, black pants and baseball cap, and carrying a yellow backpack.
    Ayah Imran, Freep.com, 7 July 2025
  • Perry wore a black bikini and sunglasses with a matching shorts and button-down cover-up set, while Bloom sported black swim trunks, a white t-shirt and a black baseball cap.
    Marina Watts, People.com, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Artist and designer Cecil Beaton performed a coy fashion magazine pose in full drag, his slender form crowned by an enormous picture hat that transforms him into something approaching a human flower, photographed by the duo David James Scott and Edgar Wilkinson.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
  • Okay, Emily is wearing a picture hat that makes her previous hat look tiny.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • Donning stocking caps and bundled up in winter coats against an April chill, hundreds of protesters held picket signs along the sidewalks of Emmanuel Cleaver II Boulevard and Main Street.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Friends sent me stocking caps, soft blankets, fingerless gloves and slip-on shoes.
    Amy Bizzarri, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Lee pointed to two black tents filled with men in hard hats.
    Thessaly La Force, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2025
  • Huffing and puffing and occasionally pausing briefly to catch their breath, the two utility workers, outfitted with safety glasses and hard hats, ultimately had to stop after more than five minutes, unable to break through the thick pipe with a large circular cutting device.
    Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • Carter Beauford, perhaps the most unheralded drummer in music, busied himself with syncopated patterns and dizzying high hat on the song.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Instead of high hats, use wall washers, which bounce light off the walls and space.
    Adam Shell, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • One of the most popular traditional costumes was the bauta, which consisted of a full mask, a cape that covered the head and shoulders, and a tricorn or cocked hat.
    Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.
    William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
Noun
  • The Cowboy Carter singer sported a denim jumpsuit with a chic brown cowboy hat.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 26 June 2025
  • Cameras captured him wearing a cowboy hat at the time.
    Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2025

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“Top hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/top%20hat. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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