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top-hat

top-hat is the alternative form of top hat.

Meaning of top hat

Noun

top hat (plural top hats)

  1. A man's formal hat, with a tall cylindrical crown (often of silk).
  2. A kind of steel batten.
    • The car body is a light steel shell fabricated by welding from top-hat, channel, and Z sections.1958 April, “Diesel Railbus for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 276

Forms of top-hat

pluraltop-hats

Phrases with top-hat

Questions about top-hat

What is top-hat the alternative form of?
Top-hat is the alternative form of top hat.

Words near top-hat in the dictionary

  1. top-flight
  2. top-fuel
  3. top-grade
  4. top-hamper
  5. top-hampers
  6. top-hat
  7. top-hat pension
  8. top-hat pensions
  9. top-hat plan
  10. top-hat plans
  11. top-hat transform

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Adapted from Wiktionary: top-hat (page history and authors); top hat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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