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biscuit tins

biscuit tins is the plural of biscuit tin.

Meaning of biscuit tin

Noun

biscuit tin (plural biscuit tins)

  1. (UK) A medium-sized metal container with removable lid used to store biscuits and keep them fresh.
    • She rang under my feet like an empty Huntley and Palmer biscuit-tin kicked along a gutter; she was nothing so solid in make, and rather less pretty in shape, but I had expended enough hard work on her to make me love her.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 218

Questions about biscuit tins

What is biscuit tins the plural of?
Biscuit tins is the plural of biscuit tin.

Words near biscuit tins in the dictionary

  1. biscuit roots
  2. biscuit shooter
  3. biscuit shooters
  4. biscuit star
  5. biscuit tin
  6. biscuit tins
  7. biscuit ware
  8. biscuit weight
  9. biscuit-cutter
  10. biscuit-cutters
  11. biscuited

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