hats

Noun

hat (plural hats)

1. A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
   • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans...

   Synonyms:

   cap

2. (figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
   • It's all a matter of hats, Minister.1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Official Visit”, in Yes Minister, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds)
3. (figuratively) Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
   1. (broadly, figuratively) The lottery or draw itself.
      • We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.
4. A hat switch.
   • The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, page 139
5. The circumflex symbol.

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