cunt cap

plural cunt caps

1. slangvulgargovernmentA hat which is gathered and folded on the top.

   I hated it – I preferred to wear the gook cap because the cunt cap had DUMMHEIT embroidered all across in black, in an elegant cursive, really swanky and stylish.

   1993, Philip Lewis, Life of Death, page 128

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   I had warmed under the smiling gaze of this military young woman who wore her small lifeboat hat (these were, I afterwards discovered, known as cunt-caps among the girls themselves) and smoked her ration of tobacco, though she always refused coffee.

   1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Penguin, published 2004, page 633

   The soldier's overseas cap, the one that opens up along the top, is called a cunt cap: it's hard to imagine any other piece of conventional headgear, like a policeman's visor cap or a bishop's miter or a motorcyclist's helmet treated automatically with such obscene disrespect.

   1989, Paul Fussell, Wartime, Oxford University Press, page 92