top-hatted

See also: tophatted

English

Alternative forms

• tophatted

Adjective

top-hatted (not comparable)

1. Wearing a top hat.
   • 1960 June, M.G.D. Farr, “Railbus services in the Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 366:

     Half-an-hour later the whistle blew to summon the passengers back to the train, and they then moved on to Tetbury, where a procession was formed and slow-marched into the centre of the town, led by two top-hatted "mourners".

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 38:

     While walking in the off-peak over the small wood-panelled footbridge [at Baker Street station] that connects the two original platforms - which itself resembles an old-fashioned railway carriage hoisted above the tracks - I would not be surprised to see a top-hatted man approaching me.

Synonyms

• betoppered
• toppered

References

• “top-hatted”, in Collins English Dictionary.