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tin hat
noun
Slang.
a steel helmet worn by soldiers.
tin hat
noun
obsolete, a steel helmet worn by military personnel for protection against small metal fragments
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Word History and Origins
Origin of tin hat1
First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences
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Diomande's act of foolishness just put the tin hat on it.
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One government source said to me: "It's definitely not tin hat time yet."
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It's time to put on the tin hats and ignore the noise.
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Magnuson said one colleague had a puppet with bright red hair, just like Magnuson, wearing a tin hat with a Freedom Caucus sticker.
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“He must have gone down to Mar-a-Lago with Trump wearing their tin hats, I mean — what a conspiracy theory,” McAuliffe said.
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