noun
hatstand
Hatstand (noun) means a stand for hanging hats on, made of an upright pole on a steady base with hooks or pegs.
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A stand for hanging hats on, made of an upright pole on a steady base with hooks or pegs.
"I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand."
— Stephen Roberts, Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841) (2021)
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Etymology
* hat + stand * (crazy, insane): From the "Roger Irrelevant" strip in the Viz comic, where this was one of Roger's absurd non sequiturs.
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"hatstand" (noun) means a stand for hanging hats on, made of an upright pole on a steady base with hooks or pegs.
