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high-hat

adj · noun · verb · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

disdainful; haughty

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: airy, arrogant, chesty, authoritarian, biggity, big-headed, blustery, boastful, lordly, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, glorious, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high-handed, high-hat, high and mighty, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, hubristical, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, orgulous, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A person who acts in a superior manner.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A large pill of opium for smoking.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: aunti/aunti Emma, big O, chandu, Chinese tobacco, dopium, dream gun, dream stick, fi-do-nie, gee, God's medicine, gondola, goric, guma, hop/hops, meconium, midnight oil, mud, ope, pen yan, pin gon, pox, skee, toxy, when-shee, yen, ze, zero

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A low camera mount without tripod legs.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: broadcasting, media, television

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Meaning relationships

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5

noun

Meaning 5

Alternative form of hi-hat.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

To snub or treat condescendingly.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

5 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: надме́нен (nadménen) — disdainful
  • Bulgarian: високоме́рен (visokoméren) — disdainful
  • Finnish: kenopäinen — disdainful
  • German: hochnäsig — disdainful
  • Russian: надме́нный (nadménnyj) — disdainful