BAD HAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bad hat mean? 

• BAD HAT (noun)
  The noun BAD HAT has 1 sense:

1. someone who deliberately stirs up trouble

  Familiarity information: BAD HAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAD HAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who deliberately stirs up trouble

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

bad hat; mischief-maker; trouble maker; troublemaker; troubler

Hypernyms ("bad hat" is a kind of...):

persona non grata; unwelcome person (a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bad hat"):

agitator; fomenter (one who agitates; a political troublemaker)

disturber (a troubler who interrupts or interferes with peace and quiet; someone who causes disorder and commotion)

badgerer; heckler (someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections)

devil; heller; hellion (a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man))

hellhound (a very evil man)

firebrand; inciter; instigant; instigator; provoker (someone who deliberately foments trouble)

blusterer; loudmouth (a person who causes trouble by speaking indiscreetly)

cut-up; hoaxer; practical joker; prankster; tricker; trickster (someone who plays practical jokes on others)

rioter (troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace; someone who rises up against the constituted authority)

 Context examples 

Here is the stone; the stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other characteristics with which I have bored you.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)