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High-hat

adj, noun, verb, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    disdainful; haughty

    "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.’"

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who acts in a superior manner. slang
  2. 2
    A large pill of opium for smoking. slang

    "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."

  3. 3
    A low camera mount without tripod legs.
  4. 4
    Alternative form of hi-hat. alt-of, alternative
Verb
  1. 1
    To snub or treat condescendingly. transitive

    "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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