Advertisement
Advertisement
cocked hat
noun
- a man's hat, worn especially in the 18th century, having a wide, stiff brim turned up on two or three sides toward a peaked crown. Compare bicorne, tricorn ( def 2 ).
cocked hat
noun
- a hat with opposing brims turned up and caught together in order to give two points (bicorn) or three points (tricorn)
- knock into a cocked hat slang.to outdo or defeat
Word History and Origins
Origin of cocked hat1
Idioms and Phrases
- knock into a cocked hat, Informal. to destroy completely; render unachievable.
Example Sentences
A field-marshal has his uniform, a bishop his silk apron, a counsellor his silk gown, a beadle his cocked hat.
He frowns and looks enviously at the sword and cocked hat which the General has left on a chair.
Her visage lengthened visibly whenever she saw him approaching with his cocked hat and ivory-headed cane.
He was a portly man, wore a three-cocked hat, and an old scarlet cloak, which had served the same purpose time out of mind.
Lossing tells us that she would sometimes pass along their lines and get her cocked hat full of crowns.
Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse