Meaning of brass hat | Babel Free

Definitions

A high-ranking officer. Commander.

metonymically, slang

Examples

“"American brass hats make⟳ no secret that they regard outer space as a potential theater of military operations," it said.”

“He raised his first storm in January 1967 when, as leader of the "Save⟳ the Argylls" campaign, he claimed the brass hats had driven the regiment's commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Colin "Mad Mitch" Mitchell, into resignation.”

“This being Libya, there were conflicting signals yesterday – an army brass hat captured here, a counter-attack by Gaddafi forces there […]”

“[…] with particularly young Thais—including 3.3 million first-time voters—backing the upstart party’s bold pledges to weaken the political role of brass hats and amend the nation’s strict royal defamation law […]”

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