Definition of "top hat" []

• A man's hat having a narrow brim and a tall cylindrical crown, usually made of silk. Also called high hat. (noun)

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• "One such passed me pulled by a white-bearded man whose clothes — gaiters, very skinny pants, a strange dull-silk top hat that flared out at the top — were years out of fashion."
• "I can't count the times I've found underpants suitable to both sexes, and once I found a top hat set jauntily upright on a stone."
• "Jackie Cooper was up on the screen, in a battered top hat and a polka-dot tie, blubbering over his dead dog."