A fork of Rural Dictionary
When something is as astonishing as a gentleman would drop his hat off
Also "hats off"
LONG HAIR, SHORT BUTT, THIGHBROW? DROP HATS!
Similar to "Boom head shot" this is yelled whenever one gets a head shot on another player.
Player 1 shoots Player 2 in the head, Player 1 then tells Player 2 "dropped your hat".
To let one go when suffering from serious windy-pops. A polite way of admitting your bodies emission, without using foul language.
It is not neccessary to wear a hat to be able to exclaim that you have dropped it.
Can also used by a third person as an accusative
"I must apologise to you all, I dropped my hat as the doors closed."
Or
"Did you drop your hat again?" said Roy
"No", said Dave, through the smoke rising from his smouldering trousers.
if you do something at the drop of a hat, you do it suddenly and easily, often without any preparation.
I can't go rushing off to Florida at the drop of a hat.
We now have a situation where laws may be changed at the drop of a hat.
An idiom meaning to happen quickly, easily. For example, in the amount of time it would take a hat to fall to the ground.
When I'm thirsty, I could suck down a beer at the drop of a hat.
at any moment
He would fart at the drop of a hat.