old hats

Noun (1)

old hat (uncountable)

1. (idiomatic) Something regarded as very familiar and unoriginal, hackneyed, or out of date.
   • Oliver. What was the address about, to begin with? / Willie. Oh, the same old hat—Freedom.1920, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Touch and Go: A Play in Three Acts (Plays for a People’s Theatre; II), London: C[harles] W[illiam] Daniel, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 21

Noun (2)

old hat (countable and uncountable, plural old hats)

1. (archaic, countable, slang) The female genitalia.
   • I ſhall conclude this learned Note vvith remarking, that the Term Old Hat, is at preſent uſed by the Vulgar, in no very honourable Senſe.[1743, Henry Fielding, “The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great. Chapter VI. Of Hats.”, in Miscellanies, […], volume III, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book II...

   Synonyms:

   muff, prat

2. (archaic, broadly, countable, derogatory, slang) A woman treated as a sexual partner.
   • VVhy, hovv novv, ye piece of old Hat, vvhat are ye muſty? the Jade's as muſty as a ſtale pot of Marmalade of her ovvn making.1697, [Thomas] d’Urfey, The Intrigues at Versailles: Or, A Jilt in All Humours: A Comedy, […], London: […] F. Saunders […], P. Buck […], R. Parker […], and H. Newman […], →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page...
3. (archaic, broadly, slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
   • [S]he very pertly reply'd, She had done that not vvith a Design to affront but to convince me of the Value ſhe had for my Preſent; for that if the Pedantick Blockhead ſhould come, he ſhould only have a little bit of Old-Hat to ſtay his Stomach, till he got to ſome Harlot of his ovvn Puritanical...1723, Charles Walker, “Letter XI”, in Authentick Memoirs of the Life Intrigues and Adventures of the Celebrated Sally Salisbury. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 103

   Synonyms:

   aphrodisia, carnal knowledge, coitus, coition, commerce, commixtion, congress, conjunction, connection, consummation

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