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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.



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Reliable as always, Carlile does her tender-soulful ‘70s folk-rock thing in “Tin Cup Chalice,” then talks about her experiences fishing with Buffett, whom she says impressed many a lesbian fisherwoman by bragging that he was friends with Brandi Carlile.

Reliable as always, Carlile does her tender-soulful ‘70s folk-rock thing in “Tin Cup Chalice,” then talks about her experiences fishing with Buffett, whom she says impressed many a lesbian fisherwoman by bragging that he was friends with Brandi Carlile.

Barnett grew up in segregated Gary, Ind., shooting Ping-Pong balls into a tin cup.

Baumgartner and Costner reportedly first met on a golf course in the 1990s when Costner was rehearsing for his role in the 1996 film “Tin Cup.”

She drank it out of a big tin cup, because she thought it kept it hot longer.

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