gimme cap

noun

1. a visored cap decorated with the symbol or name of a product, company, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gimme cap¹

First recorded in 1975–80; so called from its being given away as a promotional item

Example Sentences

“Stillwater” is animated by cascading cultural clashes and misunderstandings, most of them involving Damon’s character, a taciturn, working-class middle American whose eyes are perpetually shaded by a worn-out gimme cap.

From Washington Post

He might even come across as professorial if he weren’t always covered with an apron the color of butcher paper, his silver hair tucked behind his ears underneath a gimme cap from Louie Mueller Barbecue, the celebrated smokehouse in Taylor, Tex.

From Washington Post

Finally, I want to tip my $20 Diner gimme cap to an old timer on the D.C. scene: Rocklands Barbeque and Grilling Company has been smoking meats since 1990, long before some of you were eating solid food.

From Washington Post

Wilson had on a backward gimme cap; Bernstein wore a woollen ski hat.

From The New Yorker

As he leads a tour of Sunny Slope Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, where the turkey industry entered the modern age, Charles W. Wampler Jr. wears a gimme cap on his head and a custom-made belt around his thin waist.

From Washington Post