Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To remove the hat from.
  • To take off the hat; uncover the head, as from politeness, or in worship.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb To take off the hat of; to remove one's hat, especially as a mark of respect.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive, intransitive To take off the hat of; to remove one's hat, especially as a mark of respect.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

un- +‎ hat

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Examples

  • A cryptographer could tell at a glance what had happened and would calculate how to 'unhat' the columns to bring the letters into proper alignment " a process which would tax his patience more than his mathematics.

    between silk and cyanide Marks, Leo 1998

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