squatchee

English

A squatchee on a baseball cap

Etymology

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Noun

squatchee (plural squatchees)

1. A small, cloth-covered button affixed to the top of a baseball cap that holds together the panels of the hat.

   Synonyms: Squatchee, squatcho, Squatcho

   • 2011 June 15, Craig Robinson, Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 153:

     You gotta love a different-colored squatchee, right?

   • [2023 July 14, Scott Drummond, Sandy Ponton, What Dying Taught Me About Living, Covenant Books, Incorporated, →ISBN:

     The lighting had hit my head. It struck the Squatchee—the fabric-covered button—on the top of my baseball hat, went down through my body, and out through my feet.]

   • 2023 October 9, Daniel Kraus, The Ghost That Ate Us, Raw Dog Screaming Press, →ISBN:

     The impact bends Muckells’s neck 90 degrees down, the squatchee button of his cap pointing straight at Kit Bryant’s chest.

   • [2026 April 29, Jason Weisberger, “Why the button on top of baseball caps is smarter than it looks”, in BoingBoing‎^[1], retrieved 29 April 2026:

     The "squatchee" is a pretty neat piece of engineering, and it keeps your hat from falling apart.]