noun
- protective helmets worn by construction workers and others in industrial settings
- construction workers or blue-collar workers, especially those who support conservative political views
Usage: informal
Examples
- All visitors to the construction site must wear hardhats.
- The workers put on their hardhats before entering the factory.
- Safety regulations require hardhats in this area.
- The politician appealed to hardhats and other working-class voters.
- Yellow hardhats are standard equipment for the construction crew.
- The hardhats protested the new environmental regulations.
- She grabbed her hardhat from the truck before starting work.