hatstand

See also: hat-stand and hat stand

English

hat +‎ stand
(crazy, insane): From the "Roger Irrelevant" strip in the Viz comic, where this was one of Roger's absurd non sequiturs.

hatstand (plural hatstands)

(UK) A device used to store hats upon, consisting of a vertical pole with a sturdy base to prevent toppling, and an array of pegs to hold the hats.
- 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
  I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.

hat rack — see hat rack

hatstand (comparative more hatstand, superlative most hatstand)

(UK, slang) Crazy, insane.
- 1988 December, Your Sinclair, number 36, page 118:
  Chris Merriman is 43, comes from Rugby and is totally hatstand. Here's proof: Fave planet? "The Milky Way."
- 2011, D. Leonard Freeston, The Sixth Extinction, page 282:
  "I'd have to be totally hatstand to do that! She'll recognize me."

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