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Definition of Tin hat
1. Noun. A lightweight protective helmet (plastic or metal) worn by construction workers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tin Hat
Literary usage of Tin hat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poems of Heroism in American Life by John Raymond Howard (1922)
"THE RAINDROPS ON YOUR OLD tin hat [Written by Lieut. ... reckon maybe it's her
tears, and not the rain, That's keeping up the patter on your old tin hat ? ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1901)
"Bella could hardly see anything else, she was so painfully conscious of it all:
Polly's round tin hat-box, packed to bursting, with the white string of some ..."
3. Great Poems of the World War by William Dunseath Eaton (1918)
"RAIN ON YOUR OLD tin hat . LIEUT. JH WICKERSHAM Written at the battle front in
France and sent to his mother, Mrs. WE Damon. ..."
4. First Call: Guide Posts to Berlin by Arthur Guy Empey (1918)
"As soon as your shrapnel-proof The "tin hat" helmet, or "tin hat, as it is called,
is issued to you, see that it fits. In wearing the steel helmet, ..."
5. Circuits of Victory by Abraham Lincoln Lavine (1921)
"Four doughboys rubbed their eyes and stared. In a dazed sort of way, they
asked, "Are—are you Americans?" "You can bet your tin hat we are! ..."
6. Circuits of Victory by Abraham Lincoln Lavine (1921)
""You can bet your tin hat we are!" was the answer and that, of course, settled it.
No English girl—of whom the doughboys had seen a goodly number in ..."
7. Mrs. Private Peat, by Herself by Louisa Watson Peat (1918)
"The tin hat would not move. We laughed. It tilted to one side and caught. ...
It was hot inside the tin hat. The voice from within became faint and gurgly. ..."
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