tip one's hat

English

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Verb

tip one's hat (third-person singular simple present tips one's hat, present participle tipping one's hat, simple past and past participle tipped one's hat)

1. To briefly remove or tap one's hat as a gesture of greeting, deference, or respect.
2. (idiomatic) To acknowledge or show respect; to honor.

   I tip my hat to whoever invented the root beer float.

Translations

briefly remove one's hat

• Catalan: llevar-se la gorra
• Finnish: nostaa hattua
• German: den Hut ziehen; den Hut lüften
• Swedish: ta av sig hatten

briefly tap one's hat

• German: sich an den Hut tippen; die Hand an den Hut legen

honour

• Finnish: nostaa hattua
• French: tirer son chapeau (fr)
• German: den Hut ziehen

See also

• take one's hat off to

Anagrams

• on the tapis