old hat

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Something regarded as very familiar and unoriginal, hackneyed, or out of date.

   • 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, […]
2. 2

   Very familiar and unoriginal

   Very familiar and unoriginal; common, hackneyed, out of date.

   • [Noël] Coward is such an old hand at this kind of thing that he makes it seem old hat.
   • In fact, monorails are rather old hat.
   • [I]t is old hat for a sex scandal to bring down a politician.
3. 3

   The female genitalia.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      A woman treated as a sexual partner.

      • 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.
   2. 5

      Sexual intercourse.

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