High-hat
adj, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A person who acts in a superior manner. slang
- 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 A low camera mount without tripod legs.
- 4 Alternative form of hi-hat. alt-of, alternative
- 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[…]."
- 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.’"
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More examples"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.’"
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