Definition of Billicock
{ Bil"ly*cock (?), n., or
Bil"ly*cock hat` (?) }. [Perh. from bully +
cock; that is, cocked like the hats of the bullies.] A
round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake. "The undignified
billycocks and pantaloons of the West." B. H.
Chamberlain.
Little acquiesced, and Ransome disguised him in a
beard, and a loose set of clothes, and a billicock
hat. Charles Reade.
{ Bil"ly*cock (?), n., or
Bil"ly*cock hat` (?) }. [Perh. from bully +
cock; that is, cocked like the hats of the bullies.] A
round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake. "The undignified
billycocks and pantaloons of the West." B. H.
Chamberlain.
Little acquiesced, and Ransome disguised him in a
beard, and a loose set of clothes, and a billicock
hat. Charles Reade.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (British) a felt hat with a rounded crown, similar to a bowler
- 1911: Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown - "... a young man with a billycock hat on the back of his head tumbled up the steps in his eagerness."
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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