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- noun Plural form of
tinhorn .
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Examples
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Jim had been weaned on cards in a place where gambling was the salt of life, and "tinhorns" were as plentiful as mosquitoes in summer.
Colorado Jim George Goodchild
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"One'd think something was doin 'up there,' stead of bein 'a mere stampede of greenhorns an' tinhorns."
TOO MUCH GOLD 2010
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"One'd think something was doin 'up there,' stead of bein 'a mere stampede of greenhorns an' tinhorns."
Too Much Gold 2010
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Except for that wily fox, David Axelrod, who could charm gold threads out of moonbeams, Obama seems to be surrounded by juvenile tinhorns, bumbling mediocrities and crass bully boys.
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They did it because all you had to do was enrich these tinhorns and stroke their egos in order guarantee their assistance in the pillaging of their own people.
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Nor the crooked tinhorns he exposed after observing them crudely slip cards up their sleeves and into their pockets.
Deuces Wild Dusty Richards 2004
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"One'd think something was doin 'up there,' stead of bein 'a mere stampede of greenhorns an' tinhorns."
Too Much Gold 1904
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Except for that wily fox, David Axelrod, who could charm gold threads out of moonbeams, Obama seems to be surrounded by juvenile tinhorns, bumbling mediocrities and crass bully boys.
The Corner on National Review Online Edward John Craig 2009
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Give my regards to the Dinsmores an 'tell 'em that Tascosa is no sort of place for shorthorns or tinhorns. "
Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912
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