brick in one's hat

Meaning

Noun

Origin

  • US, circa 1846. Presumably due to staggering walk when drunk; compare top-heavy with drink.
  • John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English, 1905,

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