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* The Billycock and it's team colors look similar to Blutarch and Redmond's hats [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/thumb/d/df/Family_Portrait.jpg/656px-Family_Portrait.jpg], although this could be just a coincidence.
 
* The Billycock and it's team colors look similar to Blutarch and Redmond's hats [http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/thumb/d/df/Family_Portrait.jpg/656px-Family_Portrait.jpg], although this could be just a coincidence.
  
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*If you were to paint a Backbiter's Billycock bright green, it resembles a Leprechaun Hat.
  
 
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The Spy

The Backbiter's Billycock is an unlockable headwear item for the Spy. It appears as a Tom Bowler hat that sits atop the Spy's regular balaclava.

Painted variants

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Single colors
Painted Backbiter's Billycock E6E6E6.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock D8BED8.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock C5AF91.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 7E7E7E.png
An Extraordinary Abundance of Tinge Color No. 216-190-216 Peculiarly Drab Tincture Aged Moustache Grey
Painted Backbiter's Billycock 141414.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 2D2D24.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 694D3A.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 7C6C57.png
A Distinctive Lack of Hue After Eight Radigan Conagher Brown Ye Olde Rustic Colour
Painted Backbiter's Billycock A57545.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock CF7336.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock E7B53B.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock F0E68C.png
Muskelmannbraun Mann Co. Orange Australium Gold The Color of a Gentlemann's Business Pants
Painted Backbiter's Billycock E9967A.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock FF69B4.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 7D4071.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 51384A.png
Dark Salmon Injustice Pink as Hell A Deep Commitment to Purple Noble Hatter's Violet
Painted Backbiter's Billycock 2F4F4F.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 424F3B.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 808000.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 729E42.png
A Color Similar to Slate Zepheniah's Greed Drably Olive Indubitably Green
Painted Backbiter's Billycock 32CD32.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock BCDDB3.png
The Bitter Taste of Defeat and Lime A Mann's Mint
Team colors
Painted Backbiter's Billycock A89A8C.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 839FA3.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 3B1F23.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 18233D.png
Waterlogged Lab Coat (RED) Waterlogged Lab Coat (BLU) Balaclavas Are Forever (RED) Balaclavas Are Forever (BLU)
Painted Backbiter's Billycock B8383B.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 5885A2.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 483838.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 384248.png
Team Spirit (RED) Team Spirit (BLU) Operator's Overalls (RED) Operator's Overalls (BLU)
Painted Backbiter's Billycock 803020.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 256D8D.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 654740.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock 28394D.png
The Value of Teamwork (RED) The Value of Teamwork (BLU) An Air of Debonair (RED) An Air of Debonair (BLU)
Painted Backbiter's Billycock C36C2D.png Painted Backbiter's Billycock B88035.png RED Backbiter's Billycock.png BLU Backbiter's Billycock.png
Cream Spirit (RED) Cream Spirit (BLU) Unpainted (RED) Unpainted (BLU)

Trivia

  • The Billycock also known as an Tom Bowler, Derby or Coke hat was originally designed for horseback riders. The tighter-fitting brim and relatively low crown made it harder to topple off its owner's head. Some had complained of low tree branches knocking off their silk top hats, which were the preferred style of the gentry at the time.
  • The popularity of the bowler hat increased in young men during the 1960s and 1970s after the release of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.
  • This hat is similar to the one worn by Oddjob, a villain from the James Bond series.
  • A similar hat was also worn by the British agent John Steed in the 1960s Spy Fi television series The Avengers, as well as by the titular character and his associates in the 1999 heist film The Thomas Crown Affair.
  • The term "Backbiter" means a person who says nasty things about another person [1], so the hat's name may refer to the Spy's tendency to badmouth opponents. It could also, however, refer to the pain one feels when being stabbed in the back.
  • The Spy's Billycock looks similar to the Modest Pile of Hat. However, the Modest Pile of Hat is grey, has a thicker rim, and a much more noticeable hatband.
  • The Billycock and it's team colors look similar to Blutarch and Redmond's hats [2], although this could be just a coincidence.
  • If you were to paint a Backbiter's Billycock bright green, it resembles a Leprechaun Hat.