tin hatn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌtɪn ˈhat/, U.S.

/ˌtɪn ˈhæt/

Forms: see tin n. and hat n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: tin n., hat n.

Etymology: < tin n. + hat n.In use with reference to drunkenness (compare senses A. 2 and B., and also tin hats adj., tin-hatted adj. 1) apparently arising from the use of metal helmets as receptacles for vomiting into on board ship; compare:1857 J. Askew Voy. Austral. & N.Z. 16 Some of them were looking over the side of the ship, and relieving their troubled stomachs very freely; and others were sitting upon the deck and, below, with buckets and tin hats before them.1873 M. Stannard Mem. Professional Lady Nurse 21 Tin hats, used by those who obtained the pity and contempt of the sailors, by being sick in.

A. n.

a. A metal hat or helmet; esp. (colloquial) a protective steel helmet worn by soldiers.Now chiefly used with colloquial reference to the steel combat helmet designed in 1915 by John Leopold Brodie.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > steel helmet

tin hat1799

steel helmet1916

battle bowler1925

tin helmet1934

1799 Repertory Arts & Manuf. 11 425 He, at the first appearance of a storm, used to put a large tin hat on his head, which he fastened by leather straps to his body.

1842 London Sat. Jrnl. 23 Apr. 203/2 The Viennese Watchmen wear a large tin hat, turned up in front, a long leather apron, black gaiters, [etc.].

1903 A. M. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise viii. 194 A Tommy in a tin hat as I squared with a couple o'blow.

1917 B.E.F. Times 8 Sept. in Wipers Times: Compl. Series (2006) 228/1 I must go now and have my photo taken in a gas-bag and tin hat.

1923 Sci. Amer. Nov. 360/2 The trench hat, ‘the old tin hat’, is coming into quite extensive use as a means of head protection against small falls of rock in mines.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words Tin hat: the steel shrapnel-helmet adopted in the spring of 1916 as the universal wear at the Front, and in London by Special Constables during air raids.

1940 War Illustr. 5 Jan. 563 ‘Tin Hats’ for the Heads of Britain's Defenders.

1967 P. W. Keve Imaginative Programming in Probation & Parole iv. 131 Forestry work has a distinctly masculine character.., and the tin hats they are issued seem to be much more useful as status symbols than they are as head protectors.

2013 S. Wales Echo (Nexis) 8 Nov. 8 They put on their tin hats, picked up their guns and put their lives in the hands of stupid generals who conducted the war many miles behind the frontline.

b. Military slang. A high-ranking officer. Cf. brass hat n. at brass n. Compounds 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] > high-ranking officer

marshal general1594

brass hat1887

tin hat1916

1916 Searchlight (No. 2 Company, London Electrical Engineers) Dec. 74 You have heard the impassioned appeal of some one who wears a mythical metallic helmet, the irreverent call him a ‘Tin hat’, the degenerate a ‘Brass’.

1919 Athenæum 18 July 632/2 May I add one or two more army slang terms? ‘Tin hat’ or ‘brass hat’ for general officer.

1929 J. J. Niles et al. Songs 27 The boys always sang this little song if there were no very high-up tin hats about.

2. slang (chiefly Nautical). In phrases referring to drunkenness, as to have tin hats, to have on one's tin hat: to be drunk. Cf. sense B.

ΚΠ

1896 Chapman's Mag. Apr. 370 They had only had ‘tin hats’ the night before; and no power on earth could rouse them from their slumbers this morning... Ingram understood that a ‘tin hat’ was considered a jocular rather than a serious malady.

1901 G. Goodenough Handy Man Afloat & Ashore 162 A man who has drunk not wisely but too well is described as ‘tin-hatted’, or as having on his ‘tin hat’.

1910 Western Monthly Apr. 76/1 ‘Ay tank Ay ben lettle bit stewed last night,’ said the Swede frankly. ‘Day copper say Ay have ay case of tin hats.’

3. colloquial (chiefly British). to put the tin hat on something: to bring something to a (typically unwelcome) close or climax; to finish off, put an end to something; to be the last straw. Also (with on as adverb) to put the tin hat on. Cf. to put the lid on at lid n. 1e.

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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > bring to an end or conclude [verb (transitive)]

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endc1305

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definec1384

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to bring adowna1450

terma1475

adetermine1483

determine1483

to knit up1530

do1549

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date1589

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period1595

includea1616

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to wind off1650

periodizea1657

dismiss1698

to wind up1740

to put the lid on1873

to put the tin hat on something1900

to wash up1925

1900 Evening News 21 Aug. 1/5 Now they have put the tin hat on it all [sc. a period of leave], and we are off where we will get more shells than beer.

1900 Western Mail (Cardiff) 17 Sept. 6/6 He manages to get together a good, strong combination [i.e. a football team],..and put the ‘tin hat’ on them with a vengeance.

1919 Athenæum 8 Aug. 727/2 The shrapnel helmet was invariably a ‘tin hat’, and ‘to put the tin hat on it’ is..‘to ki-bosh it’.

1927 ‘Sapper’ Saving Clause i. 22 This second exhibition of cowardice had put the tin-hat on.

1933 P. G. Wodehouse Mulliner Nights vii. 225 It was the limit, he felt, the extreme edge. It put the tin hat on things.

1977 J. M. Johnson in J. D. Douglas & J. M. Johnson Existential Sociol. viii. 244 He reflected that, at the time, he thought his efforts had ‘put the tin hat on it’.

1998 Transport News Aug. 6/3 ‘April's increase on fuel duty put the tin hat on an already struggling operation,’ said Alister. ‘It was the last straw.’

2010 P. Murray Skippy Dies 385 His only new discovery is three huge sacks filled to the brim with girls' unmentionables... This puts the tin hat on it, as far as Ruprecht is concerned.

B. adj.

slang (chiefly Nautical). = tin hats adj. Cf. sense A. 2, tin-hatted adj. 1. rare.

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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk

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in drink1598

disguiseda1600

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in one's cups1611

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love-pot1611

pot-sick1611

whift1611

owl-eyed1613

fapa1616

hota1616

inebriated1615

reeling ripea1616

in one's (or the) pots1618

scratched1622

high-flown?1624

pot-shot1627

temulentive1628

ebrious1629

temulent1629

jug-bitten1630

pot-shaken1630

toxed1635

bene-bowsiea1637

swilled1637

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soaken1651

temulentious1652

flagonal1653

fuddled1656

cut1673

nazzy1673

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strut1718

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moon-eyed1737

rocky1737

soaked1737

soft1737

stewed1737

stiff1737

muckibus1756

groggy1770

muzzeda1788

muzzya1795

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lumpy1810

lushy1811

pissed1812

blue1813

lush1819

malty1819

sprung1821

three sheets in the wind1821

obfuscated1822

moppy1823

ripe1823

mixed1825

queer1826

rosined1828

shot in the neck1830

tight1830

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inebrious1837

mizzled1840

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pickled1842

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miraculous1879

under the influence1879

ginned1881

shickered1883

boiled1886

mosy1887

to be loaded for bear(s)1888

squiffeda1890

loaded1890

oversparred1890

sozzled1892

tanked1893

orey-eyed1895

up the (also a) pole1897

woozy1897

toxic1899

polluted1900

lit-up1902

on (also upon) one's ear1903

pie-eyed1903

pifflicated1905

piped1906

spiflicated1906

jingled1908

skimished1908

tin hat1909

canned1910

pipped1911

lit1912

peloothered1914

molo1916

shick1916

zigzag1916

blotto1917

oiled-up1918

stung1919

stunned1919

bottled1922

potted1922

rotto1922

puggled1923

puggle1925

fried1926

crocked1927

fluthered1927

lubricated1927

whiffled1927

liquefied1928

steamed1929

mirackc1930

overshot1931

swacked1932

looped1934

stocious1937

whistled1938

sauced1939

mashed1942

plonked1943

stone1945

juiced1946

buzzed1952

jazzed1955

schnockered1955

honkers1957

skunked1958

bombed1959

zonked1959

bevvied1960

mokus1960

snockered1961

plotzed1962

over the limit1966

the worse for wear1966

wasted1968

wired1970

zoned1971

blasted1972

Brahms and Liszt?1972

funked up1976

trousered1977

motherless1980

tired and emotional1981

ratted1982

rat-arsed1984

wazzed1990

mullered1993

twatted1993

bollocksed1994

lashed1996

1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 246/2 Tin hat (Anglo-Port Said), drunk—two tin hats very drunk—three, incapable, and to be carried on board.

1914 E. Pugh Cockney at Home 164 I got a bit tin-'at last night–done in the barrer-money–an' now I'm gaspin' for a wet.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tin hat
释义	tin hatn.adj. Brit. /ˌtɪn ˈhat/, U.S. /ˌtɪn ˈhæt/ Forms: see tin n. and hat n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: tin n., hat n. Etymology: < tin n. + hat n.In use with reference to drunkenness (compare senses A. 2 and B., and also tin hats adj., tin-hatted adj. 1) apparently arising from the use of metal helmets as receptacles for vomiting into on board ship; compare:1857 J. Askew Voy. Austral. & N.Z. 16 Some of them were looking over the side of the ship, and relieving their troubled stomachs very freely; and others were sitting upon the deck and, below, with buckets and tin hats before them.1873 M. Stannard Mem. Professional Lady Nurse 21 Tin hats, used by those who obtained the pity and contempt of the sailors, by being sick in. A. n. 1. a. A metal hat or helmet; esp. (colloquial) a protective steel helmet worn by soldiers.Now chiefly used with colloquial reference to the steel combat helmet designed in 1915 by John Leopold Brodie. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > steel helmet tin hat1799 steel helmet1916 battle bowler1925 tin helmet1934 1799 Repertory Arts & Manuf. 11 425 He, at the first appearance of a storm, used to put a large tin hat on his head, which he fastened by leather straps to his body. 1842 London Sat. Jrnl. 23 Apr. 203/2 The Viennese Watchmen wear a large tin hat, turned up in front, a long leather apron, black gaiters, [etc.]. 1903 A. M. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise viii. 194 A Tommy in a tin hat as I squared with a couple o'blow. 1917 B.E.F. Times 8 Sept. in Wipers Times: Compl. Series (2006) 228/1 I must go now and have my photo taken in a gas-bag and tin hat. 1923 Sci. Amer. Nov. 360/2 The trench hat, ‘the old tin hat’, is coming into quite extensive use as a means of head protection against small falls of rock in mines. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words Tin hat: the steel shrapnel-helmet adopted in the spring of 1916 as the universal wear at the Front, and in London by Special Constables during air raids. 1940 War Illustr. 5 Jan. 563 ‘Tin Hats’ for the Heads of Britain's Defenders. 1967 P. W. Keve Imaginative Programming in Probation & Parole iv. 131 Forestry work has a distinctly masculine character.., and the tin hats they are issued seem to be much more useful as status symbols than they are as head protectors. 2013 S. Wales Echo (Nexis) 8 Nov. 8 They put on their tin hats, picked up their guns and put their lives in the hands of stupid generals who conducted the war many miles behind the frontline. b. Military slang. A high-ranking officer. Cf. brass hat n. at brass n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] > high-ranking officer marshal general1594 brass hat1887 tin hat1916 1916 Searchlight (No. 2 Company, London Electrical Engineers) Dec. 74 You have heard the impassioned appeal of some one who wears a mythical metallic helmet, the irreverent call him a ‘Tin hat’, the degenerate a ‘Brass’. 1919 Athenæum 18 July 632/2 May I add one or two more army slang terms? ‘Tin hat’ or ‘brass hat’ for general officer. 1929 J. J. Niles et al. Songs 27 The boys always sang this little song if there were no very high-up tin hats about. 2. slang (chiefly Nautical). In phrases referring to drunkenness, as to have tin hats, to have on one's tin hat: to be drunk. Cf. sense B. ΚΠ 1896 Chapman's Mag. Apr. 370 They had only had ‘tin hats’ the night before; and no power on earth could rouse them from their slumbers this morning... Ingram understood that a ‘tin hat’ was considered a jocular rather than a serious malady. 1901 G. Goodenough Handy Man Afloat & Ashore 162 A man who has drunk not wisely but too well is described as ‘tin-hatted’, or as having on his ‘tin hat’. 1910 Western Monthly Apr. 76/1 ‘Ay tank Ay ben lettle bit stewed last night,’ said the Swede frankly. ‘Day copper say Ay have ay case of tin hats.’ 3. colloquial (chiefly British). to put the tin hat on something: to bring something to a (typically unwelcome) close or climax; to finish off, put an end to something; to be the last straw. Also (with on as adverb) to put the tin hat on. Cf. to put the lid on at lid n. 1e. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > bring to an end or conclude [verb (transitive)] yendc1000 abatec1300 finec1300 endc1305 finisha1375 definec1384 terminec1390 achievea1393 out-enda1400 terminate?a1425 conclude1430 close1439 to bring adowna1450 terma1475 adetermine1483 determine1483 to knit up1530 do1549 parclose1558 to shut up1575 expire1578 date1589 to close up1592 period1595 includea1616 apostrophate1622 to wind off1650 periodizea1657 dismiss1698 to wind up1740 to put the lid on1873 to put the tin hat on something1900 to wash up1925 1900 Evening News 21 Aug. 1/5 Now they have put the tin hat on it all [sc. a period of leave], and we are off where we will get more shells than beer. 1900 Western Mail (Cardiff) 17 Sept. 6/6 He manages to get together a good, strong combination [i.e. a football team],..and put the ‘tin hat’ on them with a vengeance. 1919 Athenæum 8 Aug. 727/2 The shrapnel helmet was invariably a ‘tin hat’, and ‘to put the tin hat on it’ is..‘to ki-bosh it’. 1927 ‘Sapper’ Saving Clause i. 22 This second exhibition of cowardice had put the tin-hat on. 1933 P. G. Wodehouse Mulliner Nights vii. 225 It was the limit, he felt, the extreme edge. It put the tin hat on things. 1977 J. M. Johnson in J. D. Douglas & J. M. Johnson Existential Sociol. viii. 244 He reflected that, at the time, he thought his efforts had ‘put the tin hat on it’. 1998 Transport News Aug. 6/3 ‘April's increase on fuel duty put the tin hat on an already struggling operation,’ said Alister. ‘It was the last straw.’ 2010 P. Murray Skippy Dies 385 His only new discovery is three huge sacks filled to the brim with girls' unmentionables... This puts the tin hat on it, as far as Ruprecht is concerned. B. adj. slang (chiefly Nautical). = tin hats adj. Cf. sense A. 2, tin-hatted adj. 1. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk fordrunkenc897 drunkena1050 cup-shottenc1330 drunka1400 inebriate1497 overseenc1500 liquor1509 fou1535 nase?1536 full1554 intoxicate1554 tippled1564 intoxicated1576 pepst1577 overflown1579 whip-cat1582 pottical1586 cup-shota1593 fox-drunk1592 lion-drunk1592 nappy1592 sack-sopped1593 in drink1598 disguiseda1600 drink-drowned1600 daggeda1605 pot-shotten1604 tap-shackled1604 high1607 bumpsy1611 foxed1611 in one's cups1611 liquored1611 love-pot1611 pot-sick1611 whift1611 owl-eyed1613 fapa1616 hota1616 inebriated1615 reeling ripea1616 in one's (or the) pots1618 scratched1622 high-flown?1624 pot-shot1627 temulentive1628 ebrious1629 temulent1629 jug-bitten1630 pot-shaken1630 toxed1635 bene-bowsiea1637 swilled1637 paid1638 soaken1651 temulentious1652 flagonal1653 fuddled1656 cut1673 nazzy1673 concerned1678 whittled1694 suckey1699 well-oiled1701 tippeda1708 tow-row1709 wet1709 swash1711 strut1718 cocked1737 cockeyed1737 jagged1737 moon-eyed1737 rocky1737 soaked1737 soft1737 stewed1737 stiff1737 muckibus1756 groggy1770 muzzeda1788 muzzya1795 slewed1801 lumpy1810 lushy1811 pissed1812 blue1813 lush1819 malty1819 sprung1821 three sheets in the wind1821 obfuscated1822 moppy1823 ripe1823 mixed1825 queer1826 rosined1828 shot in the neck1830 tight1830 rummy1834 inebrious1837 mizzled1840 obflisticated1840 grogged1842 pickled1842 swizzled1843 hit under the wing1844 obfusticatedc1844 ebriate1847 pixilated1848 boozed1850 ploughed1853 squiffy?1855 buffy1858 elephant trunk1859 scammered1859 gassed1863 fly-blown1864 rotten1864 shot1864 ebriose1871 shicker1872 parlatic1877 miraculous1879 under the influence1879 ginned1881 shickered1883 boiled1886 mosy1887 to be loaded for bear(s)1888 squiffeda1890 loaded1890 oversparred1890 sozzled1892 tanked1893 orey-eyed1895 up the (also a) pole1897 woozy1897 toxic1899 polluted1900 lit-up1902 on (also upon) one's ear1903 pie-eyed1903 pifflicated1905 piped1906 spiflicated1906 jingled1908 skimished1908 tin hat1909 canned1910 pipped1911 lit1912 peloothered1914 molo1916 shick1916 zigzag1916 blotto1917 oiled-up1918 stung1919 stunned1919 bottled1922 potted1922 rotto1922 puggled1923 puggle1925 fried1926 crocked1927 fluthered1927 lubricated1927 whiffled1927 liquefied1928 steamed1929 mirackc1930 overshot1931 swacked1932 looped1934 stocious1937 whistled1938 sauced1939 mashed1942 plonked1943 stone1945 juiced1946 buzzed1952 jazzed1955 schnockered1955 honkers1957 skunked1958 bombed1959 zonked1959 bevvied1960 mokus1960 snockered1961 plotzed1962 over the limit1966 the worse for wear1966 wasted1968 wired1970 zoned1971 blasted1972 Brahms and Liszt?1972 funked up1976 trousered1977 motherless1980 tired and emotional1981 ratted1982 rat-arsed1984 wazzed1990 mullered1993 twatted1993 bollocksed1994 lashed1996 1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 246/2 Tin hat (Anglo-Port Said), drunk—two tin hats very drunk—three, incapable, and to be carried on board. 1914 E. Pugh Cockney at Home 164 I got a bit tin-'at last night–done in the barrer-money–an' now I'm gaspin' for a wet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1799
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