tin hat
tin hat noun: the steel helmet worn by soldiers during World War I.
Noun
tin hat (plural tin hats)
- The steel helmet worn by soldiers during World War I.
- They could live on jerked goat, the strong black coffee they called 'boiler compound,' and hash cooked in a tin hat.2007, Winston Groom, 1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls
- Synonyms:
- trench derby
- A tinfoil hat.
- The New World Order is a term that has often been laughed at, ridiculed and considered as paranoia by tin hat wearing conspiracy theorists in recent history.2011, Andrew Curtiss, 1984 Redux: Say Hello to Big Brother, page 491
- Meanwhile we're all being led like sheep to the slaughter while being portrayed by the industry that would commit genocide as a fringe group of misguided, uninformed, conspiracy theorist, tin hat lunatics that also believe in alien abductions.2011, Carol Ann Lindsay, The Planet Of Comet Sense, page 102
Synonyms of tin hat
Forms of tin hat
| plural | tin hats |
|---|---|
| alternative form | tinhat |
Questions about tin hat
- What does tin hat mean?
- Tin hat means the steel helmet worn by soldiers during World War I.
- What part of speech is tin hat?
- Tin hat is a noun.
- What is the plural of tin hat?
- The plural of tin hat is tin hats.
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