Meanings
nountin-horn (plural tin-horns)
plural tin-horns
- alternativeAlternative spelling of tinhorn.
There was an auto salesman in here yesterday that claimed you could always tell a fellow's class by the car he drove, but I says to him, 'Don't be silly,' I says; 'the wisenheimers grab a look at a fellow's nails when they want to tell if he's a tin-horn or a real gent!"'
1922, Sinclair Lewis, “24”, in Babbitt
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