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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Behind the times; old-fashioned: Last year's styles will be old hat soon.
  2. adj. Overused; trite: That prank is old hat.

Wiktionary

  1. n. idiomatic Something with which one is very familiar, or in which one is experienced or skilled.
  2. n. idiomatic Something widely or long practiced, known, or accepted; something conventional.
  3. n. idiomatic Something uninteresting, hackneyed, or passé due to overuse or long-standing familiarity.

Examples

  • “It is not like the affair of an old hat cock’d — and a cock’d old hat, about which your reverences have so often been at odds with one another — but there is a difference here in the nature of things —”

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

  • “The lead Spad replied with a statement that seemed old hat to us at the instant but that later took a prominent place in our reconstruction of the puzzzle.”

    Thud Ridge

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Words with the same meaning

  1. antique
  1. old-fashioned
  1. outmoded
  1. out-of-date
  1. passe
  1. passee

equivalents (3)

Other words for ‘old hat’

  1. unstylish
  1. unfashionable
  1. unoriginal

reverse dictionary (3)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. old hat
  1. cockup
  1. toby

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