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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
The new pattern "tin hat," with which we had by this time all been supplied, formed a by no means unimportant part of our dress.
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One of them had tied his tin hat to my tail, I remember, and the rest were trying to stick their nasty spears between my scales.
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A piece of shrapnel hit a Cockney, a lad from Paddington, on his tin hat.
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The little German prisoners seemed to be all tin hat and boots.
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As clever as that other one with the fireman's tin hat, as game as Jimmy Wilde, and as kind as Heaven.
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