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bucket hat

[ buhk-it hat ]

noun

  1. a supple, brimmed hat used for casual wear and various outdoor activities and, especially formerly, as an item of women’s fashion: compared to a boonie hat, it has a narrower, more sloping brim and a taller crown.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bucket hat1

First recorded in 1930–35
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Example Sentences

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In the 13 years since “Gossip Girl” wrapped, most of the paparazzi pictures snapped of her have been shot while she was surfing, appearing more concerned with sun protection — outfitted in a bucket hat and full-body wetsuit — than her appearance.

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Eric Bobo leans into the camera from his right, donning a leather jacket and hiding his eyes beneath a bucket hat and black sunglasses combo.

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The bucket hat pictured on his dashboard was more deliberately placed, he admits – a nod to his Welsh roots.

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Big and bearded, shirt ever open, in shorts and sandals and a bucket hat, he’s under surveillance by the government, which as part of the pharmaceutical-industrial complex is not keen to have that business destroyed.

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For 14 seasons, Oscar-nominated Brenda Blethyn has donned Vera’s drab brown mac, crumpled wax bucket hat and inevitable scarf and bundled it all into a truly ancient Land Rover to stomp around some corpse or other, badgering the coroner about time and cause of death before snapping, “Well, quick as you can, pet.”

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