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tin hats

tin hats is the plural of tin hat.

Meaning of tin hat

Noun

tin hat (plural tin hats)

  1. (historical, slang) 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
  2. 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

Questions about tin hats

What is tin hats the plural of?
Tin hats is the plural of tin hat.

Words near tin hats in the dictionary

  1. tin frame
  2. tin frames
  3. tin god
  4. tin gods
  5. tin hat
  6. tin hats
  7. tin knocker
  8. tin knockers
  9. tin lid
  10. tin lids
  11. tin liquor

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