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strawhat

strawhat adjective: pertaining to summer theater productions outside an urban or metropolitan area; relating to summer stock. Also the alternative form of straw hat.

Adjective

strawhat (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to summer theater productions outside an urban or metropolitan area; relating to summer stock.
    • Sierra, long associated with stock companies and as an actor and director in this section of the country, took time during the past years to establish a new model service in town and he will bring some of his cover gals to the strawhat program to drill them for Hollywood or other boards.1946 January 26, “Chi Strawhat With Sierra's Shy Man'kins”, in The Billboard
    • All three of them are concerned only with becoming actors and they finagle their way into the strawhat dramatic workshop of a famous theater guru, whose characterization is done with deadly wit.2007, Harold Bloom, James Baldwin, →ISBN, page 199

Also used as

strawhat is also the alternative form of straw hat.

Forms of strawhat

pluralstrawhats

Questions about strawhat

What does strawhat mean?
Strawhat means pertaining to summer theater productions outside an urban or metropolitan area; relating to summer stock.
What part of speech is strawhat?
Strawhat is an adjective.

Words near strawhat in the dictionary

  1. strawflowers
  2. strawfork
  3. strawforks
  4. strawful
  5. strawfuls
  6. strawhat
  7. strawhats
  8. strawhatted
  9. strawhead
  10. strawheads
  11. Strawhorne

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