titfer


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titfer

(ˈtɪtfə)
n
(Clothing & Fashion) slang Brit a hat
[from rhyming slang tit for tat hat]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.titfer - a hat (Cockney rhyming slang: `tit for tat' rhymes with `hat')
chapeau, hat, lid - headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
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Translations

titfer

(o.f.) [ˈtɪtfəʳ] N (Brit) → sombrero m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

titfer

n (Brit inf: = hat) → Deckel m (inf)
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References in periodicals archive ?
TOP HAT Lucan's silk titfer sold for PS2200, way above the PS50 estimate
Made using traditional methods by a Birmingham-based clothing company, this period style, cotton lined cap is similar to his series one titfer. It is s a woven black/ grey tweed which gives the appearance of Donegal Tweed.
This almost tweedy-looking titfer is from French Connection priced at pounds 20.
Get sponsored to enter a competition and give a small prize for the most creative titfer.
WITH his titfer set at a cheeky angle over arching eyebrows, the young man, who had regularly raised his arm to the teachers' questions, was likely to succeed at something.
So far I can't decide between touring the country on a small llama (for the book Crackers About Alpacas), wearing a different hat for every day of 2010 (The Titfer Diaries) or writing to minor celebrities and asking for a lock of their hair so that I can fashion wigs for bald people in the west end of Newcastle (Send Me Your Hair, Coleen Nolan).
Songs: Girls Aloud's Nadine Titfer the top: Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe
If the fall of a titfer did induce sleep, my wife Maria would have Uncle Eric's trilby on standby throughout the soccer season.
Meghan's angled titfer more than nodded to the huge hat Eliza had at the races.
If you stroll about in the financial districts of any big city like London or Birmingham then the suits sport black lace up shoes, and at the racecourse it is brown brogues with matching suit and trilby titfer.
If you stroll about in the financial districts of any big city, like London or Birmingham, the suits sport black lace up shoes, and at the racecourse it's brown brogues, with matching suit and trilby titfer.
ASCOT was the place to see some titfer tat yesterday, but hats off to footie ace Peter Crouch and wife Abbey for looking so cool just days after the birth of their son.