tin cup

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noun

a cup made out of tin, especially one used by beggars to solicit money.

a request for unearned money: holding out a tin cup to the government.

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Words nearby tin cup

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How to use tin cup in a sentence

Jess had found a tin cup in the dump, and fastened on a wooden handle with a bit of wire.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner
He had removed his tin cup and was engaged in stirring its grimy contents with a small stick.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
He could hear the rough talk and laughter within and now and then the clink of a tin cup.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine|John Fox, Jr.
Instead of tin cup and iron spoon, which Rosa had, she revelled in all the pretty things that children love.
Growing Up|Jennie M. Drinkwater

Just then Jacks came to the opening of the notch, and set down a tin cup of coffee and a plate of soaked hardtack and fried bacon.
Motor Matt's Daring, or, True to His Friends|Stanley R. Matthews