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old-hat   (TTS Sound)

The adj old-hat has 2 senses

• banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn -- (repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'")


• antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passe, passee -- (out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas")