Meaning of old hat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something regarded as very familiar and unoriginal, hackneyed, or out of date.
   idiomatic, uncountable
2. The female genitalia.
   archaic, countable, slang
3. A woman treated as a sexual partner.
   archaic, broadly, countable, derogatory, slang
4. Sexual intercourse.
   archaic, broadly, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Oliver. What was the address about, to begin with? / Willie. Oh, the same old hat—Freedom.”

“We curved through the bright mile or two of the Strip, […] past the Georgian-Colonial vogue, now old hat, past the handsome modernistic buildings in which the Hollywood flesh-peddlers never stop talking money, […]”

“I ſhall conclude this learned Note vvith remarking, that the Term Old Hat, is at preſent uſed by the Vulgar, in no very honourable Senſe.”

“Old hat; a vvoman's privities: becauſe frequently felt.”

“'Tis a Nest, a Niche, an Old Hat, an Omnibus, an Oyster, a Palace o' Pleasure.”

“VVhy, hovv novv, ye piece of old Hat, vvhat are ye muſty? the Jade's as muſty as a ſtale pot of Marmalade of her ovvn making.”

“Top-diver, a Lover of VVomen. An old Top-diver, one that has Lov'd Old-hat in his time.”

“[S]he very pertly reply'd, She had done that not vvith a Design to affront but to convince me of the Value ſhe had for my Preſent; for that if the Pedantick Blockhead ſhould come, he ſhould only have a little bit of Old-Hat to ſtay his Stomach, till he got to ſome Harlot of his ovvn Puritanical Flock, […]”

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