In the UK, a lightweight hard hat providing low-level impact protection, typically used in warehouses and maintenance environments where full hard hats are impractical. In the US, the term can refer to a baseball-style cap with a hard internal insert. The two senses reflect different safety standards and workplace cultures on either side of the Atlantic.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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Warehouse staff are required to wear a bump cap in the loading bay rather than a full hard hat.
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(UK) A hard hat.
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(US) A form of baseball cap.
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