cocked hat

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   hat with opposing brims turned up and caught together to form points

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Questions about cocked hat

What does cocked hat mean?

cocked hat means "hat with opposing brims turned up and caught together to form points".

Is cocked hat a common word?

cocked hat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.