high-hat

A friend admonished him for the high-hat dismissal, and a chastened Mr. Lloyd fished out the script for a closer look.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

My eyes digest the immensity of fallen trees bracketing the trail, the high-hat shaped fungi that spring from trunks and the thick folds of lichen hanging from branches that obscure the far-off canopy.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2021

DJDS, which is finishing up work on its third album, replaced those tones with finger snaps, placed a spotlight on Clark's rich rhythm guitar and added sibilant trap-style high-hat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2018

At some point the yearning is answered, at first chthonically, by the bass drum, later by the insistent jump of the high-hat.

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2017

I've got a silk high-hat as slick as goose-grease, and a long jimswinger coat, and pants that are always ironed as sharp as a knife-blade in front.

From Ann Boyd by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

Said a salesgirl in high-hatted Hattie Carnegie's: "A woman who bought six hats last year will buy only four this year."

From Time Magazine Archive

Later, driving through Cambridge with his high-hatted entourage, Edward of Wales espied a man in a boater as battered as his own, waved his bedraggled straw.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yankee Doodle Boy hits pretty hard at Cohan's early days when, as a flip, conceited kid playing in vaudeville, he high-hatted stagehands, raised hell over his billing.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was moving along with us, her face peering over the half-lowered window, growing suspicious of movie stars who high-hatted their fans.

From Time Magazine Archive

And waving a cheery farewell with his neat umbrella the good and high-hatted uncle passed away, leaving Cyril and Anthea to exchange eloquent glances over the shining golden sovereign that lay in Cyril's hand.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various