Skip to main content

hat-fishing

When a person wears a hat and looks so much better than when they usually do without it.
"Omg he's bald, I meet him when he was wearing a hat. "ooouu gurl, he was hat-fishing"
hat-fishing by guccimaminani February 12, 2017
Related Words

hatfishing 

When someone on a dating site wears a hat in all their pictures to conceal the fact that they are bald.
This guy is wearing either a cowboy hat or a bandana in every picture. I think he is hatfishing me. He said to send a selfie so I texted him a picture of Betty White.

Hagfishing 

When someone creates a fake profile on a dating site that is deliberately repulsive and offensive for the purpose of demonstrating that people are awful and no bar is too low.
Sally was hagfishing on Match.com as a Neo-nazi single mother with eight kids and a meth addiction. She got 127 messages in 24 hours!
Hagfishing by SlimeEelResearcher February 5, 2019

Hatfishing 

When someone on a dating site wears a hat in all their pictures to conceal the fact that they are bald.
This guy is wearing either a cowboy hat or a bandana in every picture. I think he is hatfishing me. He said to send a selfie so I texted him a picture of Betty White.

Hatfishing 

Hatfishing is a practice where a man purposely deceives a potential romantic partner by wearing a hat on every date to hide his rapidly receding hairline.
"She went on dozens of dates with Tom before it occurred to her that she had never seen him without his Ducati hat on. Her friends were right - he was hatfishing her."
Hatfishing by Tzensant June 12, 2020

Hatfishing 

When a guy (or girl) wears a hat to hide a lack of hair or receding hairline thus upping their perceived attractiveness.
Wow! He went from a 7 to a 4 as soon as he took his hat off. Was he hatfishing? I feel like I’ve been hatfished.
Hatfishing by WiseGuy42 August 19, 2021