squatchee

plural squatchees

1. A small, cloth-covered button affixed to the top of a baseball cap that holds together the panels of the hat.

   You gotta love a different-colored squatchee, right?

   2011 June 15, Craig Robinson, Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 153

   3 more examples

   The lighting had hit my head. It struck the Squatchee—the fabric-covered button—on the top of my baseball hat, went down through my body, and out through my feet.

   [2023 July 14, Scott Drummond, Sandy Ponton, What Dying Taught Me About Living, Covenant Books, Incorporated, →ISBN

   The impact bends Muckells’s neck 90 degrees down, the squatchee button of his cap pointing straight at Kit Bryant’s chest.

   2023 October 9, Daniel Kraus, The Ghost That Ate Us, Raw Dog Screaming Press, →ISBN

   The "squatchee" is a pretty neat piece of engineering, and it keeps your hat from falling apart.

   [2026 April 29, Jason Weisberger, “Why the button on top of baseball caps is smarter than it looks”, in BoingBoing, retrieved 29 Apr 2026

   Synonyms: Squatchee, squatcho, Squatcho