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high-hat en · ADJ

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.’ 1929 December, Betty Boone, “The Price of this Stardom”, in Screenland, page 22:

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most high-hat	Degree=Sup		lexicographic
more high-hat	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic

fi kenopäinen (disdainful) · bg надме́нен (disdainful) · ru надме́нный (disdainful) · bg високоме́рен (disdainful) · de hochnäsig (disdainful)

(slang) A person who acts in a superior manner.
(slang) 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 long needle. 2011, Dominic Lagan, The Coming Storm:
A low camera mount without tripod legs.
(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of hi-hat.
alt of hi-hat

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high-hats	Number=Plur		lexicographic

(transitive) 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[…]. 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, →ISBN, page 139:

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high-hatted	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
high-hatted	Tense=Past	lexicographic
high-hats	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
high-hatting	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic