Background is the expression "hats off" used to praise something or express gratitude.
The new Jabba the Hutt scene in the re-mastered Star Wars movies is pants. But the improved film quality of Leia, as she lays half naked on Jabba's sail barge, is hats!
Hats stands for "Huge Ass Tit's". To be used in a situation where only an inner party is familuar with the expression to point out a woman with large breast.
Hats was first used in a tight group of Mt. Greylock High School stoners but rapidy gained popularity among the school to mean MArijuana. A whole sub-system of terms branches from it using winter items to represent their favorite illegal things. The process of smoking marijuana is called, wearing a hat, or putting a hat on.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murdererused a serrated blade.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).