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have a brick in one's hat en · VERB

Etymology

See brick in one's hat.

Meanings

1. (New-England, idiomatic, obsolete) To be drunk.
   • Seated at the same table with our Mr.—, was a gentleman, who, to use the current phrase, ‘had a brick in his hat.’ 1846 November 14, “Magnelia Pedestria; or, Leaves from a Pedestrian’s Note Book”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 12, number 1, page 33:

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