Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To remove the hat from.
- To take off the hat; uncover the head, as from politeness, or in worship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To take off the hat of; to remove one's hat, especially as a mark of respect.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, intransitive To take off the
hat of; to remove one's hat, especially as a mark ofrespect .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
un- + hat
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Examples
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A cryptographer could tell at a glance what had happened and would calculate how to 'unhat' the columns to bring the letters into proper alignment " a process which would tax his patience more than his mathematics.
between silk and cyanide Marks, Leo 1998
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