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tin-pan

[ tin-pan ]

adjective

  1. harsh, tinny, or clanging; noisy.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tin-pan1

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50
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Example Sentences

Tin Pan Alley composers plugged their songs there, most famously “Daisy Bell,” with its lyric about “a bicycle built for two.”

That was how Tin Pan Alley worked: Songwriters recorded demos for their publishers, who fed them to specific performers.

He watched the man put some bread and milk in a tin pan, and set it down on the floor of the basket.

Within, on the narrow stool, I find a tin pan filled with a dark-brown mixture.

There was a box in back of the pen, filled with soft grass and straw, and a tin pan filled with fresh water.

A straining voice in the sitting-room and the tin-pan tones of a piano were hushed, and out upon the veranda came several women.

In the dooryard, a dull fire smoked in a tin pan,—a "smudge" to drive off the mosquitoes.

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TínosTin Pan Alley