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ratting cap (plural ratting caps)

  1. A soft fabric hat with a short visor.
    • 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 61:
      This is another area in which it's hard to tell the dude from the twitcher, as ratting caps and deerstalkers, flying helmets and even toppers are considered acceptably eccentric.