high-hat
English
Pronunciation
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Adjective
high-hat (comparative more high-hat, superlative most high-hat)
- disdainful; haughty
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:arrogant
- 1929 December, Betty Boone, “The Price of this Stardom”, in Screenland, page 22:
- If she hasn't time for this or that, if she refuses to make or keep appointments, if her face does not greet all comers with a sweet and charming smile, then the word is passed around that ‘So-and-So is getting high-hat and up-stage.’
Translations
disdainful
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Noun
- (slang) A person who acts in a superior manner.
- (slang) A large pill of opium for smoking.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:opium
- 2011, Dominic Lagan, The Coming Storm
- A young Chinese woman with a plait down to her waist bowed to them both and then continued cutting up the bricks of opium into smaller pieces. […] "High-hats. Five dollars a pound," he explained to Mannion, pointing to the large pills or 'pocks' that the girl held over a candle flame at the end of a long needle.
- (television) A low camera mount without tripod legs.
Verb
- (transitive) To snub or treat condescendingly.
- 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 139:
- I don't high-hat technical words, because I know there a lot of things that can't be said any other way, but the doctor's lengthy explanation simply boiled down to this, that […] .
- 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 139: