high-hat
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.51 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
Alternative form of hi-hat.
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[…]."
Usage
Inflected Forms
more high-hat (comparative)
most high-hat (superlative)
high-hats (plural)
high-hats (present, singular)
high-hatting (participle, present)
high-hatted (participle, past)
high-hatted (past)