tin cup

noun

1. a cup made out of tin, especially one used by beggars to solicit money.
2. a request for unearned money:

   holding out a tin cup to the government.

Example Sentences

Jess had found a tin cup in the dump, and fastened on a wooden handle with a bit of wire.

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He had removed his tin cup and was engaged in stirring its grimy contents with a small stick.

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He could hear the rough talk and laughter within and now and then the clink of a tin cup.

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Instead of tin cup and iron spoon, which Rosa had, she revelled in all the pretty things that children love.

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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.

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