"doff one's hat to" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "doffs one's hat to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doffing one's hat to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doffed one's hat to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doffed one's hat to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "doffs one's hat to",
        "2": "doffing one's hat to",
        "3": "doffed one's hat to"
      },
      "expansion": "doff one's hat to (third-person singular simple present doffs one's hat to, present participle doffing one's hat to, simple past and past participle doffed one's hat to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851, George Borrow, Lavengro; The Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest, volume I, page 209:",
          "text": "I doffed my hat to the wondrous horse, the fast trotter, the best in mother England; and I too drew a deep ah! and repeated the words of the old fellows around. \"Such a horse as this we shall never see again; a pity that he is so old.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Godfrey B. Tangwa, No Trifling Matter: Contributions of an Uncompromising Critic to the Democratic Process in Cameroon, page 15:",
          "text": "I doff my hat to Mr President of the Republic as he celebrates his eighth anniversary of accession to the pinnacle of political power.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Barbara J. Lehman et al., Creating Books for the Young in the New South Africa, page 69:",
          "text": "Perhaps this is why she enjoys writing series (doffing her hat to all the series she read as a child).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To acknowledge praise towards (someone or something)."
      ],
      "id": "en-doff_one's_hat_to-en-verb-JM3Ui-mC",
      "links": [
        [
          "acknowledge",
          "acknowledge"
        ],
        [
          "praise",
          "praise"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "doff one's hat to"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "doffs one's hat to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doffing one's hat to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doffed one's hat to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "doffed one's hat to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "doff one's hat to (third-person singular simple present doffs one's hat to, present participle doffing one's hat to, simple past and past participle doffed one's hat to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1851, George Borrow, Lavengro; The Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest, volume I, page 209:",
          "text": "I doffed my hat to the wondrous horse, the fast trotter, the best in mother England; and I too drew a deep ah! and repeated the words of the old fellows around. \"Such a horse as this we shall never see again; a pity that he is so old.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Godfrey B. Tangwa, No Trifling Matter: Contributions of an Uncompromising Critic to the Democratic Process in Cameroon, page 15:",
          "text": "I doff my hat to Mr President of the Republic as he celebrates his eighth anniversary of accession to the pinnacle of political power.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Barbara J. Lehman et al., Creating Books for the Young in the New South Africa, page 69:",
          "text": "Perhaps this is why she enjoys writing series (doffing her hat to all the series she read as a child).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To acknowledge praise towards (someone or something)."
      ],
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        [
          "acknowledge",
          "acknowledge"
        ],
        [
          "praise",
          "praise"
        ]
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  "word": "doff one's hat to"
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