English Explanatory Dictionary

bowler hat out

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To eject (someone) from an organization.

Word forms

bowler hat out bowler hats out bowler hatting out bowler hatted out bowler-hat out

Etymology

Reputed to be from the practice of turning Royal Air Force men out by giving them their bowler hat and telling them to go.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on B Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary