high-hat
Adjective
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Adjective
high-hat
Translations- German: hochnäsig
- Russian: надме́нный
high-hat
- (slang) A person claiming to be superior.
- (transitive) To snub or treat condescendingly.
- 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance (book), 1992 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 139:
- 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 (book), 1992 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 139:
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