tin hat
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Government, Military, Politics, War Historical, Slang The steel helmet worn by soldiers during World War I.
- They could live on jerked goat, the strong black coffee they called 'boiler compound,' and hash cooked in a tin hat.2007, Winston Groom, 1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls:
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A tinfoil hat.
- The New World Order is a term that has often been laughed at, ridiculed and considered as paranoia by tin hat wearing conspiracy theorists in recent history.2011, Andrew Curtiss, 1984 Redux: Say Hello to Big Brother, page 491:
- Meanwhile we're all being led like sheep to the slaughter while being portrayed by the industry that would commit genocide as a fringe group of misguided, uninformed, conspiracy theorist, tin hat lunatics that also believe in alien abductions.2011, Carol Ann Lindsay, The Planet Of Comet Sense, page 102:
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- I don’t look like a conspiracy theorist. No tin hat, right?2018, Alex Oates, “Rules for Being a Man”, in Silk Road (How to Buy Drugs Online) and Rules for Being a Man, Bloomsbury, page 38: