old hat
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old hat¹
- /ˌəʊl(d)ˈhæt/ UK
- /ˌoʊl(d)ˈhæt/ US
Rhymes with -æt
Where it comes from
From old + hat, possibly a reference to something familiar and well-used. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a connection to German alter Hut (“something familiar and hackneyed”, noun, literally “old hat”).
noun
- Something regarded as very familiar and unoriginal, hackneyed, or out of date. Oliver. What was the address about, to begin with? / Willie. Oh, the same old hat—Freedom.
adjective more old hat · most old hat · old-hat
- Very familiar and unoriginal; common, hackneyed, out of date. [Noël] Coward is such an old hand at this kind of thing that he makes it seem old hat.
old hat²
- /ˌəʊl(d)ˈhæt/ UK
- /ˌoʊl(d)ˈhæt/ US
Rhymes with -æt
Where it comes from
From old + hat, the significance being unknown.
noun old hats
- The female genitalia. I ſhall conclude this learned Note vvith remarking, that the Term Old Hat, is at preſent uſed by the Vulgar, in no very honourable Senſe.
- A woman treated as a sexual partner. VVhy, hovv novv, ye piece of old Hat, vvhat are ye muſty? the Jade's as muſty as a ſtale pot of Marmalade of her ovvn making.
- Sexual intercourse. [S]he very pertly reply'd, She had done that not vvith a Design to affront but to convince me of the Value ſhe had for my Preſent; for that if the Pedantick Blockhead ſhould come, he ſhould only have a little bit of Old-Hat to ſtay his Stomach, till he got to ſome Harlot of his ovvn Puritanical Floc
