snap-brim

Adjective

snapbrim (not comparable)

1. Of a hat, having a brim that is flexible enough to be worn turned up in the back and snapped down in the front to shade the eyes.
   • He had had to accept half a dozen unusually patterned foulard ties, dark socks with fancy clocks, two or three 'display kerchiefs' for his breast pocket, nylon vests and pants (called T-shirts and shorts), a comfortable light-weight camel-hair overcoat with over-buttressed shoulders, a plain grey...1954, Ian Fleming, “A Visiting-Card”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 24