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high-hat
high-hat
See also: hi-hat
English
Adjective
high-hat (comparative more high-hat, superlative most high-hat)
Translations
disdainful
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Noun
- (slang) A person claiming to be superior.
 
Verb
-  (transitive) To snub or treat condescendingly.
-  1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 139:
- 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 […] .
 
 
 -  1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 139: