Definitions

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  • noun Australia A brand of Australian hat, similar to a fedora, made from rabbit fur and traditionally worn by Australian stockmen.

Etymologies

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Believed to be from an Australian Aboriginal word for a head covering.

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Examples

  • The road was still descending, and I pulled down the rim of my Akubra hat as the sun was in my eyes.

    Miles to Go Richard Paul Evans 2011

  • When I was ready, I put on my Akubra hat and carried my pack out to the front room.

    Miles to Go Richard Paul Evans 2011

  • The road was still descending, and I pulled down the rim of my Akubra hat as the sun was in my eyes.

    Miles to Go Richard Paul Evans 2011

  • The rest are identical tour buses, taxis, hire cars, and shiny new Land Cruisers piloted inexpertly through the always flat streets of the desert city by clean-faced men in safari suits and Akubra hats.

    Kangaroo Dreaming Steve Himmer 2011

  • When I was ready, I put on my Akubra hat and carried my pack out to the front room.

    Miles to Go Richard Paul Evans 2011

  • Back at Leatherarse Gully, in a part of the Whipstick which had escaped the recent fire, we drank iced tea and swam gratefully in the soupy brown waters of the Wolseley dam, clad only in Akubra hats.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Dressed in shorts, shirts and Akubra hats, they pose under a river red gum admiring a work of art they have assembled in the sand: a giant clitoris composed of river-bed rocks wrapped in pink cotton, an Antipodean riposte to the priapic Cerne Abbas Giant.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • You could start downmarket, with a leather cap: ... or try an Akubra, Brit style:

    [hats] don't leave home without one 2009

  • Back at Leatherarse Gully, in a part of the Whipstick which had escaped the recent fire, we drank iced tea and swam gratefully in the soupy brown waters of the Wolseley dam, clad only in Akubra hats.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Dressed in shorts, shirts and Akubra hats, they pose under a river red gum admiring a work of art they have assembled in the sand: a giant clitoris composed of river-bed rocks wrapped in pink cotton, an Antipodean riposte to the priapic Cerne Abbas Giant.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

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