Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A hat having a flexible brim, usually turned down in front and up at the back.

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Examples

  • When he died, locals erected a memorial in Eugene: a likeness of the author in his trademark snap-brim cap, reading a book to a rapt audience.

    Acid Test: How Much Are a Merry Prankster's Papers Worth? Joel Millman 2011

  • FBI agents no longer wear regulation white shirts and snap-brim hats as they did in J. Edgar Hoover's day, but Shahzad's neighborhood was soon crawling with burly men in SUVs.

    53 Hours in the Life of a Near Disaster 2010

  • It helped that I was wearing a blue flannel business suit and a snap-brim hat pushed back on my head and I had my hands in my pockets so that I looked exactly like George Reeves as Clark Kent in the opening credits of the old Superman TV series, except that I was shorter.

    Lance Mannion: 2008

  • It helped that I was wearing a blue flannel business suit and a snap-brim hat pushed back on my head and I had my hands in my pockets so that I looked exactly like George Reeves as Clark Kent in the opening credits of the old Superman TV series, except that I was shorter.

    All my sons and all my daughters get naked on stage 2008

  • Gay Talese's childhood memoir begins with Gay as a little boy who is heartbreakingly debonair in his hand-tailored suits and miniature snap-brim hats made by his father, Joseph clothing that earns him teasing from his tough Irish classmates.

    Five Best Memoirs Norris Church Mailer 2010

  • In a photo taken with Raymond Junior in about 1940, his face has a lean, worried look beneath an Irish snap-brim cap, while shots from later in the decade show an impeccably dressed, almost formal, gentleman with thick, wavy blond hair.

    Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

  • I broke out my snap-brim hat and got ready for a weekend of steaks, martinis and cigarettes.

    Tony Sachs: I Love The (Musicians In Their) 90s 2008

  • There were just too many great covers where he looked like The Lone Ranger in a snap-brim hat.

    The Spider, Master of Men! Bill Crider 2006

  • It starts with the table folding around to the button—the older fellow in the black snap-brim beret and glasses directly to my right.

    TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Peter Alson 2006

  • It starts with the table folding around to the button—the older fellow in the black snap-brim beret and glasses directly to my right.

    TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Peter Alson 2006

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