Definitions for tin-pot

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Spelling: [tin-pot]
IPA: /ˈtɪnˈpɒt/

Tin-Pot is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in tin-pot (-inoptt).

Definitions for tin-pot

adjective

  1. inferior; paltry; shoddy.

Origin of tin-pot

First recorded in 1765-75; from the believed inferior quality of a tin pot

Examples for tin-pot

Mary was preparing the dried meat, which she intended to boil along with the locust-beans in our tin-pot.

Presently Colenso came into view—a hundred tin-pot houses under the high hills to the northward.

I took an axe from the wagon—also a tin-pot, and a piece of dry beef that still remained to us.

It isn't a lively look-out to live in a tin-pot house here, and come home to find the mater fretting over her lost splendours.

Being New Year's Eve the usual attempt at a tin-pot band was made to make the night hideous.

"And mind you keep your tin-pot off the stones," growled Pollard.

I was about to lead him aft, but his eye caught sight of a scuttlebutt, and the tin-pot on its head.

I had to watch the steering, and circumvent those snags, and get the tin-pot along by hook or by crook.

Word Value for tin-pot
Scrable

3

Words with friends

4

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