snapbrim

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adjective

Of a hat, having a brim that is flexible enough to be worn turned up in the back and snapped down in the front to shade the eyes.

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Meanings

adjectivesnapbrim (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf a hat, having a brim that is flexible enough to be worn turned up in the back and snapped down in the front to shade the eyes.
    1 more example

    He had had to accept half a dozen unusually patterned foulard ties, dark socks with fancy clocks, two or three 'display kerchiefs' for his breast pocket, nylon vests and pants (called T-shirts and shorts), a comfortable light-weight camel-hair overcoat with over-buttressed shoulders, a plain grey snapbrim Fedora with a thin black ribbon and two pairs of hand-stitched and very comfortable black Moccasin 'casuals'.

    1954, Ian Fleming, “A Visiting-Card”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 24

Origin

From snap + brim.

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Chicago

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