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hard hat
1noun
- a protective helmet of metal or plastic, especially as worn by construction or factory workers.
- a uniformed soldier of a regular army, as opposed to a guerrilla.
hard-hat
2[ hahrd-hat ]
noun
- a construction worker, especially a member of a construction workers' union.
- a working-class conservative.
adjective
- pertaining to or characteristic of hard-hats:
enlisting hard-hat support for his policies.
hard hat
noun
- a hat made of a hard material for protection, worn esp by construction workers, equestrians, etc
- informal.a construction worker
adjective
- informal.characteristic of the presumed conservative attitudes and prejudices typified by construction workers
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hard hat1
Origin of hard hat2
Idioms and Phrases
A working-class ultraconservative. For example, They were counting on a large number of votes from the hard hats . This term alludes to the rigid protective headgear worn by construction workers, who were noted for their conservatism during the tumultuous 1960s. [c. 1960]Example Sentences
White tents have been erected at the perimeter as rescuers in bright yellow hard hats work to free an estimated 81 people still trapped beneath the collapsed skyscraper.
Of these two thrillers, honey turns out to be funnier than hard hats.
There is a reason why fresh from all the diplomatic handshakes, Sir Keir was back in the more familiar hi-vis and hard hat announcing defence jobs in Belfast.
The Unite union protested at the SEC in Glasgow, placing 400 yellow hard hats outside the venue where the conference was being held - representing jobs lost by the closure of Grangemouth.
On Livorno Drive, a street in the Palisades overlooking the ocean, dozens of people wearing neon construction vests and hard hats stood by the twisted wreckage of burned homes.
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