Meanings
plural hatstands · alternative hat stand · alternative hat-stand
- UKA device used to store hats upon, consisting of a vertical pole with a sturdy base to prevent toppling, and an array of pegs to hold the hats.
I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57
comparative more hatstand · superlative most hatstand · alternative hat stand · alternative hat-stand
- UKslangCrazy, insane.
"I'd have to be totally hatstand to do that! She'll recognize me."
2011, D. Leonard Freeston, The Sixth Extinction, page 2821 more example
Chris Merriman is 43, comes from Rugby and is totally hatstand. Here's proof: Fave planet? "The Milky Way."
1988 December, Your Sinclair, number 36, page 118
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA device used to store hats upon, consisting of a vertical pole with a sturdy base to prevent toppling, and an array of pegs to hold the hats.
Origin
* hat + stand * (crazy, insane): From the "Roger Irrelevant" strip in the Viz comic, where this was one of Roger's absurd non sequiturs.
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