tin-pan
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of tin-pan
An Americanism dating back to 1840–50
Example Sentences
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After blastoff, the fictional narrator who has combined the "televisualized" Freud, the tin-pan Trotsky and the Shakespearean Star Trek starts to muse.
From Time Magazine Archive
No flash in tin-pan alley, it was a typical troubadour's success — quick, dramatic, amazingly profitable.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once she had the tin-pan band on, Mrs. Billups went over the alphabet.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
It was a sound like a tin-pan beaten—a sound that was itself a living presence, an apparition; a thing superhuman, out of another world—like the wailing of a lost spirit, terrifying to every sense!
From Love's Pilgrimage by Sinclair, Upton
This must then be placed in a tin-pan, and mixed with water, salt, and yeast, according to taste.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 03, April 16, 1870 by Various
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