high-hat
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high-hat
adjective more high-hat · most high-hat
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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.’
Similar: airy, arrogant, chesty, authoritarian, biggity, big-headed, blustery, turgescent, boastful, lordly, bombastic, buggish
noun high-hats
- A person who acts in a superior manner.
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A large pill of opium for smoking.
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
Similar: aunti/aunti Emma, big O, chandu, Chinese tobacco, dopium, dream gun, dream stick, fi-do-nie, gee, God's medicine, gondola, goric
- A low camera mount without tripod legs.
- Alternative form of hi-hat
verb high-hats · high-hatting · high-hatted
- To snub or treat condescendingly. 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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adj disdainful
| Deutsch | hochnäsig |
|---|---|
| Русский | надме́нный nadménnyj |
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title = {high-hat},
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