top-hatted
adjEtymology From top hat + -ed.
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Wearing a top hat.
- Half-an-hour later the whistle blew to summon the passengers back to the train, and they then moved on to Tetbury, where a procession was formed and slow-marched into the centre of the town, led by two top-hatted "mourners".1960 June, M.G.D. Farr, “Railbus services in the Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 366:
- While walking in the off-peak over the small wood-panelled footbridge [at Baker Street station] that connects the two original platforms - which itself resembles an old-fashioned railway carriage hoisted above the tracks - I would not be surprised to see a top-hatted man approaching me.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 38:
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- The top-hatted “drinking bird,” once a fixture in science classrooms for demonstrating the basics of thermodynamics, is making a surprising comeback — as the inspiration for a new clean-energy generator that could one day power your watch and phone.2024 March 14, Billy Stockwell, “The ‘drinking bird’ makes a comeback and could power your gadgets with clean energy”, in CNN:
- Synonyms
- betoppered, toppered