cow's breakfast

Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a hat, especially a straw hat.

Quotations

1900

Nothing looks more out of place than a pallid face under a policeman's "cow's breakfast" (as the slouch hat was sometimes styled).

1959

. . . he returned through the streets . . . quite oblivious of the very un-naval "cow's breakfast" [straw hat] still on his head.