hat vs top hat

hat

noun
  • A hat switch. 

  • A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration. 

  • A particular role or capacity that a person might fill. 

  • The lottery or draw itself. 

  • Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery. 

  • User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot. 

  • The háček symbol. 

  • The caret symbol ^. 

verb
  • To place a hat on. 

  • To appoint as cardinal. 

  • To shop for hats. 

top hat

noun
  • A man's formal hat, with a tall cylindrical crown (often of silk). 

  • A kind of steel batten. 

How often have the words hat and top hat occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )