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tophat

tophat is the alternative spelling 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 tophat

pluraltophats

Words formed from tophat

Questions about tophat

What is tophat the alternative spelling of?
Tophat is the alternative spelling of top hat.

Words near tophat in the dictionary

  1. tophaikes
  2. Topham
  3. tophamper
  4. tophampers
  5. Tophams
  6. tophat
  7. tophats
  8. tophatted
  9. tophe
  10. topheavily
  11. topheaviness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tophat (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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