witches' hats

Orange road markers

Witches' hats are the tall, conical orange traffic cones used to mark road work, accidents, or restricted areas.

The name comes from their resemblance to the pointed black hats associated with witches in popular imagery.

In Australian and New Zealand English, this is the standard term; Americans typically just say cones or traffic cones.

magic

spellcasting

Performing magical incantations

hex · curse · incantation · coven · familiar · grimoire · enchantment · bewitchment · sorcery · wizardry

Halloween

jack-o-lanterns

Illuminated gourd faces

trick-or-treat · costumes · candy · cobwebs · pumpkins · ghosts · spiders · haunted · vampires · skeletons

traffic

cones

Tapering geometric solids

reflective · fluorescent · orange · construction · lane closure · detour · diversion · highway · signage · visibility

Opposites
traffic control permanence

witches' hatsjersey barriers

Modular road separation walls

guardrails · bollards · crash barriers · rumble strips · road infrastructure

headwear style

witches' hatshaloes

Luminous rings around heads

halos · flat caps · bowler hats · berets · pillbox hats

Family

witch, witches, hats, hatted, hatter, hatless, bewitch, bewitched, bewitching

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G