ten-gallon hat

noun

ten-gal·​lon hat ˈten-ˈga-lən- How to pronounce ten-gallon hat (audio)

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In a ten-gallon hat, Mack was genial; shaking hands with guests, joking with vendors, and taking selfies with supporters. David Gilbert, WIRED, 24 Oct. 2024 The famously maximalist state hosts the sensory exports of a Stars-and-Stripes cultural performance where ten-gallon hats, envelopes of dust, and whip-crack sounds create an immersive projection of Americana, long-preserved in popular culture for over a century. Essence, 2 Sep. 2024 Kevin Costner isn’t the only present-day actor with a fondness for Westerns; ornery old hands such as Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, and Tommy Lee Jones are always ready to don their ten-gallon hats for the right role. David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 June 2024 And although the sudden abundance of ten-gallon hats might be part of a larger promotional strategy, Beyoncé isn’t the only celebrity to make a sartorial pivot west. Leah Dolan, CNN, 16 Feb. 2024 The look hinges on a white ten-gallon hat and a black-and-silver checker print suit jacket layered a white collared shirt and matching studded shorts cinched with a black YSL belt. Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 5 Feb. 2024 So will the American West aesthetic of ten-gallon hats, Nudie-ish suits, and cowboy boots trickle down to the masses? Suzie Lechtenberg, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2024 With his walrus mustache and ten-gallon hat, Fall would go on to earn the distinction of being the first cabinet secretary ever sentenced to jail, convicted in 1929 of taking bribes in the infamous Teapot Dome scandal. Rebecca Boggs Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023 Trading his starched polo with a ten-gallon hat, and replacing his meek voice with a half-baked impression of Doc Holliday, Rodimer had refashioned himself as a cosplay cowboy—one who’d firmly back the kinds of illiberal, authoritarian policies swiftly rising in popularity on the Texas right. Casey Michel, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1920, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of ten-gallon hat was in 1920

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