ten-gallon hat

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   a hat with a wide brim and a soft crown; worn by American ranch hands

   Synonymscowboy hat

   Broaderhat

Questions about ten-gallon hat

What does ten-gallon hat mean?

ten-gallon hat means "a hat with a wide brim and a soft crown; worn by American ranch hands".

What is another word for ten-gallon hat?

Close synonyms include cowboy hat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ten-gallon hat a common word?

ten-gallon 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.