high-hat

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who acts in a superior manner. slang
  2. A large pill of opium for smoking. slang
    — A young Chinese woman with a plait down to her waist bowed to them both and then continued cutting up the bricks of opium into smaller pieces. […] "High-hats. Five dollars a pound," he explained to Mannion, pointing to the large pills or 'pocks' that the girl held over a candle flame at the end of a long needle.
  3. A low camera mount without tripod legs.
  4. Alternative form of hi-hat. alt-of,alternative
动词 v.
  1. To snub or treat condescendingly. transitive
    — I don't high-hat technical words, because I know there a lot of things that can't be said any other way, but the doctor's lengthy explanation simply boiled down to this, that[…].
形容词 adj.
  1. disdainful; haughty
    — If she hasn't time for this or that, if she refuses to make or keep appointments, if her face does not greet all comers with a sweet and charming smile, then the word is passed around that ‘So-and-So is getting high-hat and up-stage.’

词形变化

more high-hat comparative most high-hat superlative high-hats plural high-hats present,singular,third-person high-hatting participle,present high-hatted participle,past high-hatted past
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