crush hat

English

Noun

crush hat (plural crush hats)

1. A hat that collapses, and can be carried under the arm, and, when expanded, is held in shape by springs.
2. Any hat not damaged by compressing.

Hyponyms

• gibus
• opera hat

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “crush hat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)