High-hat

Quick meaning: High-hat is an adjective meaning disdainful; haughty.

Meaning

disdainful; haughty.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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[…].

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.

Word Forms

• high-hats
• high-hatting
• high-hatted

Synonyms for high-hat

Depending on context, synonyms include airy, arrogant, chesty, authoritarian, biggity, big-headed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include high-pitched, haught, huffy, haute, hault, hinky.

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