tin lid

English

Alternative forms

tin-lid

Pronunciation

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Noun

tin lid (plural tin lids)

(military slang, World War I) A tin hat.

References

Lighter, Jonathan (1972) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech‎^[1], volume 47, number 1/2, page 111

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