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top-hatless

top-hatless adjective: without a top hat.

Adjective

top-hatless (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Without a top hat.
    • So little had the scene at the Courthouse been prearranged, that I had left my Ulster overcoat at the hotel, and was wearing a top hat which alone must have discovered me out of a wholly top-hatless community.1920, William O’Brien, “An Appeal to Cæsar (1889)”, in Evening Memories, Dublin; London: Maunsel and Co., →OCLC, page 363
    • No, at this present crisis in Tokyo, I should have found myself top-hatless just the same, with the added bitterness of feeling that the stars in their courses had fought against me.1930 March 29, Arnold J[oseph] Toynbee, “Top-Hats and Chrysanthemums”, in The Nation and Athenæum, volume XLVI, number 26, London, →OCLC, page 891, column 1
    Antonyms:
    top-hatted

Antonyms of top-hatless

Origin of top-hatless

From top hat + -less.

Questions about top-hatless

What does top-hatless mean?
Top-hatless means without a top hat.
What part of speech is top-hatless?
Top-hatless is an adjective.

Words near top-hatless in the dictionary

  1. top-hat pensions
  2. top-hat plan
  3. top-hat plans
  4. top-hat transform
  5. top-hat transforms
  6. top-hatless
  7. top-hats
  8. top-hatted
  9. top-hatting
  10. top-heavy
  11. top-heavy fraction

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