tip (one's) hat



tip (one's) hat

To raise or tilt the brim of one's hat as a salutation, greeting, or mark of respect. It would be nice to live in a time when folks would tip their hats to you when you entered a room. When her father tipped his hat to me, I knew that he had come to accept me as part of the family.
See also: hat, tip

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Isa (2)EE-sah: (Dutch)German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish
Nadia (1)NAD-yə (English), NAHD-yə (English)French, English, Italian, Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian
ElenaE-le-nah (Italian), e-LE-nah (Spanish), ye-LYE-nah (Russian), ee-LYE-nah (Russian)Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovak, Lithuanian, Russian, German, Medieval Sla
Origen-History
Fearchar-Irish, Scottish
Vanja-Croatian, Serbian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish