tyrone

plural tyrones

1. incel slangA Chad-like Black man with a very high SMV who is successful with women and dating.

plural tyrones

1. obsoleteSynonym of tyro (“a beginner, a novice”).First known use 17th–19th c.

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   Of the Society of them there are threeſcore and no more. But of thoſe punies, thoſe tyrones that are brought vp vnder thoſe threeſcore, there are no leſſe then a thouſand and fiue hundred, vvho haue certaine other Schooles in the tovvne farre remote from this Colledge, vvhich ſerueth for another Seminary to inſtruct their Nouices.

   1611, Thomas Coryate [i.e., Thomas Coryat], “My Obseruations of Lyons”, in Coryats Crudities Hastily Gobled Vp in Five Moneths Trauells […], London: […] W[illiam] S[tansby for the author], →OCLC, page 63, lines 1–7

   [T]he chirurgeons have an useful practice, by which they put their apprentices and tyrones to work upon senseless dead bodies, to which, as they can do no good, so they certainly can do as little harm; while at the same time the tyro, or apprentice, gains experience, and becomes fit to whip off a leg or arm from a living subject, as cleanly as ye would slice an onion.

   1824 June, [Walter Scott], “Letter XIII. Alan Fairford to Darsie Latimer.”, in Redgauntlet, […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 298

   Synonyms: tyro

plural Tyrones

1. A placename
   1. countableuncountableA county of Northern Ireland, Ireland island, United Kingdom; One of the six traditional counties in Northern Ireland, often known as County Tyrone.

      The overkingdom of Airgialla comprising Armagh, Monaghan, parts of Louth, Fermanagh, and Tyrone, had ceased to be when the Book of Rights was compiled.

      1922, John Ryan, Ireland from A.D. 800 to A.D. 1600, Browne and Nolan, page 282

   2. countableuncountableA community in Clarington, Ontario, Canada.
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Las Animas County, Colorado.
   4. countableuncountableA town in Fayette County, Georgia.
   5. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Monroe County, Iowa.
   6. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Anderson County, Kentucky.
   7. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri.
   8. countableuncountableA census-designated place and ghost town in Grant County, New Mexico.
   9. countableuncountableA town in Schuyler County, New York.
   10. countableuncountableA former town in Coshocton County, Ohio.
   11. countableuncountableA ghost town in Morrow County, Ohio.
   12. countableuncountableA town in Texas County, Oklahoma.
   13. countableuncountableA borough of Blair County, Pennsylvania.
   14. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia.
   15. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Green County, Wisconsin.
2. UScountableA male given name transferred from the place name.

plural Tyrones

1. incel slangAlternative letter-case form of tyrone.