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Recent Examples of top hat
Nothing — except, perhaps, for watching a perfectly nice love interest in a top hat get blown to smithereens by an out-of-control carriage.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
My dream is to be the Gary Oldman Dracula, with the gray suit, gray top hat and little purple glasses.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Filmed by the owner from inside a car, the video first shows a dark figure in the corner—a skeleton with a beard and top hat—facing the wall.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
This was a new guitar-wielding D’Angelo, in a bandana or a top hat, more Sly and George Clinton than seductive soul crooner.
—Marcus J. Moore, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2025
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
My dream is to be the Gary Oldman Dracula, with the gray suit, gray top hat and little purple glasses.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
Filmed by the owner from inside a car, the video first shows a dark figure in the corner—a skeleton with a beard and top hat—facing the wall.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
This was a new guitar-wielding D’Angelo, in a bandana or a top hat, more Sly and George Clinton than seductive soul crooner.
—Marcus J. Moore, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for top hat
Noun
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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
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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
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Local social media users may have seen the video of Pete, sporting sunglasses and a backward baseball cap, reshared on lifestyle page Only in Dade.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
25 Mar. 2026
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At one point, a man wearing a white T-shirt and black baseball cap can be seen trying to intervene as a police officer attempts to break up a fight.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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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
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Okay, Emily is wearing a picture hat that makes her previous hat look tiny.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
2 May 2025
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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.—
Patricia Gallagher Newberry,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
31 Jan. 2026
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Shaped like a teddy bear, the cup also has a green Starbucks stocking cap and a straw.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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After devoting much of his LACMA tenure to construction projects, Govan sounds ready to take off his hard hat.—
Julie Belcove,
Robb Report,
15 Mar. 2026
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Security cameras capture a masked man wearing glasses and a hard hat spraying security cameras with blue paint inside a Hillsboro, Oregon, Intel parking garage.—
Natalie Morales,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Instead of high hats, use wall washers, which bounce light off the walls and space.—
Adam Shell,
USA TODAY,
17 Mar. 2025
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Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
4 June 2022
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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
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Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.—
William Finnegan,
The New Yorker,
15 May 2021
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Lit by street lights, the image features a striking man in a cowboy hat blowing bubblegum with a loose belt buckle.—
Sammy Loren,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
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Nassadir’s Instagram is filled with modeling photos, including a black and white series of him in a black cowboy hat, black singlet and black jeans.—
Rebecca White,
New York Daily News,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Top hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/top%20hat. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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