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tin-foil

tin-foil is the alternative form of tinfoil.

Meaning of tinfoil

Noun

tinfoil (countable and uncountable, plural tinfoils)

  1. A thin, pliable sheet of tin or an alloy of tin and lead, used as a protective wrapping.
  2. (informal) Aluminium foil.

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Phrases with tin-foil

Questions about tin-foil

What is tin-foil the alternative form of?
Tin-foil is the alternative form of tinfoil.

Words near tin-foil in the dictionary

  1. tin whistle
  2. tin whistles
  3. tin(II) chloride
  4. Tin-ao
  5. tin-eared
  6. tin-foil
  7. tin-foil hat
  8. tin-foil hats
  9. tin-glazed
  10. tin-horn
  11. tin-horns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tin-foil (page history and authors); tinfoil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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