"hats off" meaning in English

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Interjection

IPA: /hæts‿ˈɒf/ [Received-Pronunciation], /hæts‿ˈɔf/ [General-American], /-ˈɑf/ [General-American, cot-caught-merger] Audio: En-au-hats off.ogg
Rhymes: -ɒf Etymology: Ellipsis of take one’s hat off to. Etymology templates: {{ellipsis|en|take one's hat off to|alt=take one’s hat off to}} Ellipsis of take one’s hat off to Head templates: {{en-interj}} hats off
  1. (dated) Used as an instruction for people to remove their hats out of respect, generally towards someone of importance. Tags: dated Related terms: doff one's hat to, hat tip, take one's hat off to, tip of the hat, tip of the Stetson, tip one's hat Translations (used as an instruction for people to remove their hats out of respect): nosta hattua [singular] (Finnish), nostakaa hattua [plural] (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-hats_off-en-intj-BUg95QCN Disambiguation of 'used as an instruction for people to remove their hats out of respect': 90 10
  2. (figurative) Followed by to: used to express approval or praise: congratulations, kudos, well done! Tags: figuratively Synonyms: well done Translations (used to express approval or praise — see also congratulations, well done): klobouk dolů (Czech), nostan hattua [with-allative] (Finnish), chapeau ! (French), chapeau bas (French), Chapeau! (German), Hut ab! (German), le a kalappal (Hungarian), 脱帽 (datsubō) (Japanese), chapeau bas (Polish), czapki z głów (Polish), klękajcie narody (Polish), klobúk dolu (Slovak), quitar el sombrero [pronominal] (Spanish), sacar el sombrero [Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, pronominal] (Spanish), hatten av (för) (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-hats_off-en-intj-dRwKaCkM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 80 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 9 91 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 18 82 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 24 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 13 87 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 20 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 23 77 Disambiguation of 'used to express approval or praise — see also congratulations, well done': 5 95
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      "word": "chapeau bas"
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      "sense": "used to express approval or praise — see also congratulations, well done",
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      "word": "sacar el sombrero"
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      "word": "hatten av (för)"
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.