See bowler hat out on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Reputed to be from the practice of turning Royal Air Force men out by giving them their bowler hat and telling them to go.", "forms": [ { "form": "bowler hats out", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "bowler hatting out", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "bowler hatted out", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "bowler hatted out", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "bowler hat<> out" }, "expansion": "bowler hat out (third-person singular simple present bowler hats out, present participle bowler hatting out, simple past and past participle bowler hatted out)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "British English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Military", "orig": "en:Military", "parents": [ "Society", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "Joe was bowler hatted out of the R.A.F. for misconduct.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1946, Richard McMillan, Miracle Before Berlin:", "text": "\"Bit of luck my being here,\" said the brigadier, with a smile, rather like a schoolboy who has done something and got away with it. \"You see, I was bowler-hatted out there. Question of age. Then, when I came back they reconsidered things.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1958, P.H.H. Bryan, The Barford Cat Affair:", "text": "If an idea flopped, a subordinate would be bowler-hatted out of the gang; if the idea was successful, then it was Ted Donnell done it.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1979, Oliver Reed, Reed All about Me: The Autobiography of Oliver Reed:", "text": "His name was Bill Sulis and amazingly he had been bowler hatted out of the Royal Air Force for flying a monoplane upside down and pranging it.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To eject (someone) from an organization." ], "id": "en-bowler_hat_out-en-verb-zG8FBevZ", "links": [ [ "military", "military" ] ], "qualifier": "usually passive voice", "raw_glosses": [ "(dated, military, slang, UK, usually passive voice) To eject (someone) from an organization." ], "tags": [ "UK", "dated", "slang" ], "topics": [ "government", "military", "politics", "war" ] } ], "word": "bowler hat out" }
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