Definition of "snap-brim" [snap-brim]

• A hat having a flexible brim, usually turned down in front and up at the back. (noun)

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• "When he died, locals erected a memorial in Eugene: a likeness of the author in his trademark snap-brim cap, reading a book to a rapt audience."
• "FBI agents no longer wear regulation white shirts and snap-brim hats as they did in J. Edgar Hoover's day, but Shahzad's neighborhood was soon crawling with burly men in SUVs."
• "Gay Talese's childhood memoir begins with Gay as a little boy who is heartbreakingly debonair in his hand-tailored suits and miniature snap-brim hats made by his father, Joseph clothing that earns him teasing from his tough Irish classmates."