high-hat
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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
The first half of the new LP steers into candid confessions, backed by heavy synth and incessant high-hat; in “Blue Days,” Clasen sings, “My ego is evil / It’s coming to get me.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2022
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
On “No Bad News,” a work of fearless diagnostics and badly needed affirmation, Mr. Allen coaxes the snare drum in a lateral sway, and pushes things ahead with the kick and high-hat.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2017
Guess I was a bit high-hat about it, too.
From Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman by Noel Sainsbury
The high-hatted critic of the London Times meditated upon Durante's nose.
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
Marines, high-hatted bigwigs and sheepish ballplayers, shuffling out of step.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
All the noted campaign speakers assigned to our town were invited to be the Markleys' guests, and Mrs. Markley sent her husband, red necktied, high-hatted and tailor-made, to the train to meet the distinguished guest.
From In Our Town by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger
