Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Thin sheet-metal or thick foil either of pure tin or of an alloy of which tin forms the greater part: used for wrapping up articles, such as drugs and confectionery, which must be kept from moisture or from the air.
- To cover with tin-foil; fix tin-foil upon as a coating. The tin-foiling of looking-glasses is commonly called
silvering . Seesilver , v. t., 2.
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Examples
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Jim, isn't it time to get your tin-foil hat dry-cleaned?
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She is a warmongering, chickenhawk, tin-foil wearing, birther-deather, who should not be given the time of day, let alone a national platform.
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Comments fantastic, is it even better than tin-foil hats??
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In the rambling thesis, he was also critical of squirrels and other backyard fauna for trying to "steal my ideas" and took to wearing a tin-foil hat while delivering misogynist rants from a makeshift pulpit he constructed in his back yard. john menacher
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Adding this layer of flat-earth tin-foil hattery just makes their sales pitch all that much harder.
Going South 2009
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For the third, I folded a bit of tin-foil into a seven-pointed star.
The Seven-Pointed Star, part 1 of 2 l.e. butler 2011
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Better adjust your tin-foil hat your crazy talking points aren't coming in too clearly.
Education Reform Bill Passes House. Fails Obama Standards, but Has Local Buy-In « PubliCola 2010
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Bolling wore a tin-foil hat and nerdy glasses, and held a sign reading "Occupy The Five."
Eric Bolling Mocks Occupy Wall Street With Tin Foil Hat (VIDEO) 2011
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If you don't want to be any better than everyone else in their tin-foil hats - have at it - but that's your choice.
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(All you tin-foil hat right wingnuts are going crazy that President Clinton accomplished this, but too bad!)
Freed journalist: 'We knew the nightmare was...coming to an end 2009
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