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A hat, a horse race, and a town brawl all answering to the same name.
means A type of competitive event — most famously a horse race, but also any spirited local contest between close rivals — and also a stiff felt hat with a rounded crown.
from It all traces back to Derby, a town in England, and to the Earl of Derby. The 12th Earl founded a famous horse race at Epsom in 1780, and "Derby" became shorthand for a big race. The hat — called a "derby" in America but a "bowler" in Britain — picked up the name from its association with the races, where such hats were worn. The "local derby" sense, for a match between neighboring teams, grew from the rivalrous, crowd-pulling spirit of those sporting events. The town's own name is older still, from Old Norse roots possibly meaning something like "deer settlement."
- hat origin
- Bowler hat named after the Earl of Derby
- two minutes
- Kentucky Derby horses run it in roughly 120 seconds
- shrove tuesday
- Medieval mob football matches sprawled across entire English towns
- local rivalry
- A derby pits two same-city teams against each other
- demolition
- Drivers compete by smashing cars until one survives
kentucky derby — horse race at churchill downs since 1875, first leg of triple crown