Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. See old hat.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. same as old-fashioned, a., 2.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. out of fashion
- adj. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
Examples
“We decided that the Next Hot Thing will be unicorns, but unicorns as unlike the typical boring sparkly old-hat unicorn as the fast zombies in 28 Days Later were unlike the shambling zombies of yore.”
“Only a reference to the now-closed St. Vincent's Hospital and two of Wendall K. Harrington's many evocative projections -- one of the Twin Towers, one of the shuttered West Village eatery, Joe Jr., -- are in any way old-hat.”
“And that includes the young people who are just making their own rules and have decided that many of the current beauty truisms are just old-hat.”
The Huffington Post: Starre Vartan: The End of Artifice and the Rise of Truly Natural Beauty
“An evening that should feel like the climax of the Ad Bowl instead came off as anticlimactic and as old-hat as Madonna's stubbornly stiff halftime performance.”
“It may be that we could be a little more forgiving toward new endeavors because, as the Guardian said, something being done for the first time is far more likely to be sloppy than an old-hat formula that everyone's had over a decade to iterate on.”
“While it's brand new for you, it may be somewhat old-hat for your partner, and their disinterest however slight will show.”
The Huffington Post: Zachary Stockill: Tips for Traveling Couples
“In fact, this latter issue feels particularly relevant as Harvey pits an old-hat white politician against a less experienced, younger black one.”
The Fifth Floor: Summary and book reviews of The Fifth Floor by Michael Harvey.
“Everyone realizes the Beta does not exist -- it's an old-hat marketing ploy.”
“But I have to agree: this lazy substance-less routine of trying to make fun of a piece of long-form critical writing and thinking is becoming mighty old-hat, transparently so.”
“In the private sector too 'Big is beautiful' became old-hat and the 'lean, mean and efficient' became the new fashion.”
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