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squatchee

squatchee noun: a small, cloth-covered button affixed to the top of a baseball cap that holds together the panels of the hat.

squatchee: a small, cloth-covered button affixed to the top of a baseball cap that holds together the panels...
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Noun

squatchee (plural squatchees)

  1. A small, cloth-covered button affixed to the top of a baseball cap that holds together the panels of the hat.
    • You gotta love a different-colored squatchee, right?2011 June 15, Craig Robinson, Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 153
    • The lighting had hit my head. It struck the Squatchee—the fabric-covered button—on the top of my baseball hat, went down through my body, and out through my feet.[2023 July 14, Scott Drummond, Sandy Ponton, What Dying Taught Me About Living, Covenant Books, Incorporated, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    squatcho

Examples of squatchee in a sentence

  • The impact bends Muckells’s neck 90 degrees down, the squatchee button of his cap pointing straight at Kit Bryant’s chest.2023 October 9, Daniel Kraus, The Ghost That Ate Us, Raw Dog Screaming Press, →ISBN:
  • The "squatchee" is a pretty neat piece of engineering, and it keeps your hat from falling apart.[2026 April 29, Jason Weisberger, “Why the button on top of baseball caps is smarter than it looks”, in BoingBoing, retrieved 29 Apr 2026:

Synonyms of squatchee

  • squatcho

Forms of squatchee

pluralsquatchees

Questions about squatchee

What does squatchee mean?
Squatchee means a small, cloth-covered button affixed to the top of a baseball cap that holds together the panels of the hat.
How do you use squatchee in a sentence?
The impact bends Muckells’s neck 90 degrees down, the squatchee button of his cap pointing straight at Kit Bryant’s chest.
What part of speech is squatchee?
Squatchee is a noun.
What is the plural of squatchee?
The plural of squatchee is squatchees.

Words near squatchee in the dictionary

  1. squat toilet
  2. squat toilets
  3. squatarole
  4. squataroles
  5. squatch
  6. squatchee
  7. squatchees
  8. squatches
  9. squatchy
  10. squatinid
  11. squatinids

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