High-hat

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

disdainful; haughty.

Definitions by Sense

1. disdainful; haughty
2. (slang) A person who acts in a superior manner.
3. (slang) A large pill of opium for smoking.
4. (television) A low camera mount without tripod legs.
5. (music) Alternative form of hi-hat.
6. (transitive) To snub or treat condescendingly.

Example Sentences

If she hasn't time for this or that, if she refuses to make or keep appointments, if her face does not greet all comers with a sweet and charming smile, then the word is passed around that ‘So-and-So is getting high-hat and up-stage.’

A young Chinese woman with a plait down to her waist bowed to them both and then continued cutting up the bricks of opium into smaller pieces. […] "High-hats. Five dollars a pound," he explained to Mannion, pointing to the large pills or 'pocks' that the girl held over a candle flame at the end of a long needle.

I don't high-hat technical words, because I know there a lot of things that can't be said any other way, but the doctor's lengthy explanation simply boiled down to this, that[…].

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Word Forms

• more high-hat
• most high-hat
• high-hats
• high-hatting
• high-hatted

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