tin hat

noun

: a metal helmet

Examples of tin hat in a Sentence

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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. Jeffrey Collins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2024 In road biking, the danger is more like the risk of getting struck by lightning while running around on a mesa during an electrical storm with a tin hat on your head. Daniel Duane, Outside Online, 18 May 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1903, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tin hat was in 1903

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“Tin hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tin%20hat. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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