hard hat
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2.5
- noun
- /hɑrd hæt/
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casco de seguridad
- At the guard gate, a young man in civilian clothes and a hard hat stepped out of his booth.
- wearing a hard hat
- yellow hard hat
Give it up for the hunk in a hard hat that is Kevin McCloud.
- Give it up for the hunk in a hard hat that is Kevin McCloud.
- That's why that :) is wearing a hard hat because of my Mama.
- No, he said, I'm going to eat you because you're not wearing your hard hat.
- Here again, imagine us with our hard hats on aiming at this audience that we are interpolating.
- There is lunch, pail and hard hat day in and day out, grinding and trying to bring value to the people that you're trying to sell something to.
Examples
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And that's why I wear a hard hat.
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Put on your hard hat.
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But we need to get you a hard hat first.
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Why were you wearing a hard hat the other day?
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I think I forgot my hard hat.
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You can tell who does what by the color of the hard hat.
Academic text (2007) -
At that, Chuck picked up his hard hat and rushed to the stairs.
Fiction book (1993) -
Through it, a workman in a hard hat and dungarees appeared.
Fiction book (1995) -
We see a technician in a hard hat walking towards one of the superstructure's elevators.
Fiction book (1997) -
You must wear a hard hat on the construction site to protect your head.
Synonyms
649
1.0
A hard or padded hat that protects the head from injury
1
2.7
A hard plastic or metal hat that protects the head on construction sites
A light helmet that construction workers wear to protect their heads
How Protective
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'protective helmet' is directly derivable from combining 'hard' (firm, not easily deformed) with 'hat' (head covering): a hat that is hard for protection. This simple compound follows common compositional patterns and has close equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
Hard hat comes from a simple picture: a hard hat is a hat made of strong, stiff material that keeps the head safe, like the rigid caps miners and builders used to wear. So, hard hat today means the protective helmet workers wear on construction sites.