hatstand
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
- hat + stand
- (crazy, insane): From the "Roger Irrelevant" strip in the Viz comic, where this was one of Roger's absurd non sequiturs.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
hatstand (plural hatstands)
- (UK) A device used to store hats upon, consisting of a vertical pole with a sturdy base to prevent toppling, and an array of pegs to hold the hats.
- 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
- I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
hat rack — see hat rack
Adjective[edit]
hatstand (comparative more hatstand, superlative most hatstand)
- (UK, slang) Crazy, insane.
- 1988 December, Your Sinclair, number 36, page 118:
- Chris Merriman is 43, comes from Rugby and is totally hatstand. Here's proof: Fave planet? "The Milky Way."
- 2011, D. Leonard Freeston, The Sixth Extinction, page 282:
- "I'd have to be totally hatstand to do that! She'll recognize me."
References[edit]
- hatstand on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:coatracks on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- “hatstand”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.