cowboy hat
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1.7
- noun
- /ˈkaʊbɔɪ hæt/
- US
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sombrero de vaquero
- Dixon removed his cowboy hat, ran a hand over his head, and examined Marlene.
They're wearing a cowboy hat, whatever it happens to be, right?
- They're wearing a cowboy hat, whatever it happens to be, right?
- Blue jeans, a cowboy hat, white smile and dirty hands.
- Here is a fan made mini fig of me in my cowboy hat.
- And if you have a cowboy hat, please make sure it's not pink because that looks like Joanne.
Examples
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You'd look good in a cowboy hat.
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Look at the little cowboy hat.
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The man in the cowboy hat had lost one son...
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I was gonna go look for a cowboy hat.
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Could I wear a cowboy hat?
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At that moment, Jack came running out of the house with his cowboy hat on his head.
Fiction book (1997) -
A farm hand in a cowboy hat is nailing a rail onto the porch.
Fiction book (2001) -
Increasingly, the pickups and trucks they saw were driven by men in cowboy hats.
Fiction book (1995) -
His gray, shapeless cowboy hat was sweat-stained around the base of the crown.
Fiction book (2000) -
The cowboy wore a traditional cowboy hat while riding his horse across the plains.
Synonyms
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1.0
A shaped covering for the head with a brim worn for warmth, protection, or style
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5.4
A wide-brimmed hat with a high creased crown often worn by cowboys
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5.8
A hat with a wide brim and a tall soft crown that cowboys and ranchers wear
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Morphology
The meaning 'a hat associated with cowboys' is directly and compositionally derived from 'cowboy' (a cattle herder) + 'hat' (a head covering); it simply names the type of hat worn by cowboys. This noun + noun compound follows a regular descriptive pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Cowboy hat comes from the wide-brimmed hat cowboys used on farms and ranches to protect themselves from the sun and rain. That's why the name now means 'a wide hat linked to cowboys'.