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Tin hat   /tɪn hæt/   Listen
Tin hat

noun
1.
A lightweight protective helmet (plastic or metal) worn by construction workers.  Synonyms: hard hat, safety hat.






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"Tin hat" Quotes from Famous Books



... ammunition and they were closing in on us fast. My hair had appreciably lifted my tin hat when I had a brain-wave and threw out a double handful of rouble notes. It worked like a charm; they all stopped to collect the money, and we had gone quite a distance before they caught us up again, I threw out more notes at intervals, and ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 17, 1920 • Various

... waterproof sheet, a greatcoat, extra boots, extra underwear, a haversack with iron rations, entrenching tools, a bayonet, a water bottle, a mess kit, a rifle, two hundred fifty rounds of ammo, a tin hat, two gas helmets, and a lot of miscellaneous small junk. All this is draped, hung, and otherwise disposed over his figure by means of a web harness having more hooks than a hatrack. He parallels the old-time knight only in the matter of the steel helmet and the rifle, which, with the bayonet, ...
— A Yankee in the Trenches • R. Derby Holmes



Words linked to "Tin hat" :   hard hat, helmet



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