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gimme cap

an adjustable visored cap that often displays a corporate logo or slogan
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gimme cap

n. Slang
A cloth cap with a bill, adorned with the name of an organization or a product logo.
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gim′me cap`


n.
a visored cap decorated with the symbol or name of a product, company, etc.
[1975–80; so called from its being given away as a promotional item]
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I figure that farmers, truckers and the guys who mow the lawn at the town park have probably been wearing gimme caps for a couple thousand years now.
It's true that gimme caps provide eye-catching, cost-effective advertising for the companies that distribute them and much-needed protection from the sun for the wearers.
Farmers who wear gimme caps promoting their local cooperative or grain elevator tend to be joiners.
Shocking though it may be, not all farmers wear gimme caps. Some farmers actually wear store-bought caps they either picked out themselves, or their families bought as Father's Day gifts.
Men wearing kufis and gimme caps stop to share a cigarette.
They're succeeding at getting the sweat-stained, bloodstained logos off of their campus products: the Frisbees and the sweatshirts and the gimme caps that bear the logos of their campuses.
My checking on gild paid another dividend, the new slang noun gimme cap: "A cloth cap with a bill, adorned with the name of an organization or a product logo: 'one-size-fits-all gimme caps' (Charles Leerhsen)."