high-hat

high-hat

—*adj*
1.	informal snobbish and arrogant

—vb , -hats, -hatting, -hatted
2.	informal chiefly (US), (Canadian) to treat in a snobbish or offhand way

—n
3.	informal a snobbish person
4.	two facing brass cymbals triggered by means of a foot pedal

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Example sentences

Barrier is the high-hat detective who tries to solve the mysteries of the opera house.

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"Once, when dust rolled up from the road and the fields were high with heavy-handled wheat and the leaves of every tree were gray and curledup and hung head down, I went in the meadow with an old broom like a gun, where the dandelions had begun to seed and the low ground was cracked, and I flushed grasshoppers from the goldenrod in whirring clouds like quail and shot them down. I smelled wheat in the warm wind and every weed. I tasted dust in my mouth.... I hunted Horse Simon in the shade of a tree. I rode the broom over the brown meadow grass and with a fist like pistol butt and trigger shot the Indian on Horse Simon down.... My horse had a golden tail. Dust rolled up behind. He was on the tractor in a broad-brimmed hat. With a fist like a pistol butt and trigger, going fast, I shot him down."

-William Gass

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