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OLD-HAT

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Dictionary entry overview: What does old-hat mean?

• OLD-HAT (adjective)
The adjective OLD-HAT has 2 senses:

1. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
2. out of fashion

Familiarity information: OLD-HAT used as an adjective is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• OLD-HAT (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

Synonyms:

threadbare; stock; old-hat; hackneyed; trite; banal; timeworn; tired; shopworn; well-worn; commonplace

Context examples:

bromidic sermons / his remarks were trite and commonplace / hackneyed phrases / a stock answer / repeating threadbare jokes / parroting some timeworn axiom / the trite metaphor 'hard as nails'

Similar:

unoriginal (not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Out of fashion

Synonyms:

outmoded; demode; ex; old-fashioned; passee; passe; antique; old-hat

Context examples:

a suit of rather antique appearance / demode (or outmoded) attire / outmoded ideas

Similar:

unfashionable; unstylish (not in accord with or not following current fashion)

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