hat

  1. Noun.  A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
  2. Noun.  (figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
  3. Noun.  (figuratively) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
  4. Noun.  (figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.
  5. Noun.  (typography, non-standard) = (l, en) .

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