A dated US adjective meaning wearing a derby hat -- the round-crowned felt hat called a bowler in British English. The word reflects an era when hat-wearing was common enough to merit adjectival forms. Now largely obsolete except in historical contexts or period writing evoking early 20th century urban American life. Nobody uses it unironically today, but it paints a very specific visual in period fiction.
The old photograph showed a row of derbied men waiting outside the polling station.
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An American English adjective meaning wearing a bowler hat (called a 'derby' in American English). The term is formed by converting the noun 'derby' into an adjective with '-ed,' as in 'suited' or 'top-hatted.' It has an archaic, literary flavor — the kind of word a novelist might use to describe a character's appearance in a period piece set in the late 19th or early 20th century, when the derby/bowler hat was at the height of its popularity. Rarely used in modern speech.
The photograph showed a derbied man in a stiff collar, staring expressionlessly at the camera like everyone else in 1890s portraits.
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(US) Wearing a bowler hat.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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