billycock

noun

Definition of billycocknext
British
as in top hat

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  1. top hat
  2. baseball cap
  3. cowboy hat
  4. silk hat
  5. cocked hat
  6. stocking cap
  7. service cap
  8. high hat
Noun
  • The singer donned a powder blue dress and blond wig, while the record producer wore white face paint, a curly red wig and a top hat.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Joining guest performer Fall Out Boy on the catwalk, Swift strutted the stage in a dress and top hat patterned with the British flag.
    Brendan Le, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of top hat
Noun
  • At the Back Forty Texas BBQ Roadhouse & Saloon in Pleasant Hill, dozens of members of the Contra Costa County Republican Party gathered to watch the votes roll in, some sporting red Make America Great Again baseball caps.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Calling on a pair of light-wash wide-leg jeans during the outing, the actress teamed the popular denim cut with a black sweater, coordinating black booties, a small shoulder bag, and a bright red baseball cap.
    Averi Baudler, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of baseball cap
Noun
  • Put on your cowboy hat and your skinniest jeans: Dwight Yoakam is coming to town.
    Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Joanne, Gaga’s 2016 album, was named after her late aunt, and featured Gaga looking up into a cowboy hat on its cover.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of cowboy hat
Noun
  • Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.
    Whitney Friedlander, Vulture, 14 May 2021
Definition of silk hat
Noun
  • One of the most popular traditional costumes was the bauta, which consisted of a full mask, a cape that covered the head and shoulders, and a tricorn or cocked hat.
    Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.
    William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
Definition of cocked hat
Noun
  • First-off, there might not be a Casey’s or Kwik Trip between the Twin Cities and New Ulm that carries a blaze orange stocking cap.
    Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Prisoners were given numbers instead of names, had a chain attached to one leg, and were dressed in smocks and stocking caps.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024
Definition of stocking cap
Noun
  • And blowing a whistle, a proletarian prophet in a red service cap.
    Ostap Kin, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Thomas Redgate shows a smiling 24-year-old, a service cap crowning his head, a tan tie and shirt underneath his dress uniform.
    Denise Coffey, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2021
Definition of service cap
Noun
  • Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2022
  • It’s one of those ABBA songs that fools you with its mirror ball synths, a classic disco rhythm on the high hat and lush harmonizing.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
Definition of high hat
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