HIGH-HAT

(1) {adj.}, {slang} Treating others as inferior; acting above others. /It was an expensive place to eat, and the customers were likely to be a little high-hat./ /Jones acted high-hat toward anyone poorer than he./ (2) {v.}, {slang} To treat others as inferior; look down on. * /After she had married a rich man, Mary high-hatted her former friends./ * /"Don't high-hat me," Fred warned, when Harry began to walk away as if he didn't know him./ Compare: BRUSH OFF.