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- noun Plural form of
high-hat .
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Examples
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City high-hats, many of whom had attended the Barnes party, came after Butler with all their might.
Devil Dog David Talbot 2010
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“Look how he hands out the choicest bits to the two high-hats,” Harry Morris said.
A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003
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The double-tracked high-hats accidentally bounce left and right in the stereo field.
NYT > Home Page By JACOB BROWN 2011
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Lastly for now, another item from the intersection of sports and high-hats: fresh video of Bishop Pete Carril -- conducting a diocesan basketball clinic:
Whispers in the Loggia Rocco Palmo 2010
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Echols quotes Peter Shapiro, the author of "Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco," who noted the track's "hissing high-hats, the thumping bass sound, the surging momentum, the uplifting horns, the strings taking flight."
NYT > Home Page By JAMES GAVIN 2010
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American Don and watch how they turn Total Life Forever into a rhythmic avalanche of interloping guitar patterns and paradiddled high-hats.
Glorious Noise 2010
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Echols quotes Peter Shapiro, the author of "Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco," who noted the track's "hissing high-hats, the thumping bass sound, the surging momentum, the uplifting horns, the strings taking flight."
NYT > Home Page By JAMES GAVIN 2010
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Lastly for now, another item from the intersection of sports and high-hats: fresh video of Bishop Pete Carril -- conducting a diocesan basketball clinic:
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Echols quotes Peter Shapiro, the author of "Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco," who noted the track's "hissing high-hats, the thumping bass sound, the surging momentum, the uplifting horns, the strings taking flight."
NYT > Home Page By JAMES GAVIN 2010
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Between the wailing trombone solos and twinkling high-hats of a New Orleans-style jazz funeral, Barry has published a posthumous edition of his friend's journal in song, describing images of a freight-train hopper's heaven.
Off-Grid: Green homes, yachts, vans and sheds - Living Free, Resilient and Unplugged - Article Feed spy_vondega 2010
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