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top hats

top hats is the plural 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

Questions about top hats

What is top hats the plural of?
Top hats is the plural of top hat.

Words near top hats in the dictionary

  1. top gun
  2. top guns
  3. top hand
  4. top hands
  5. top hat
  6. top hats
  7. top ho
  8. top hoes
  9. top hole
  10. top it all
  11. top it all off

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