Urban Dictionary: tinhorn

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A cheap, showy, gambling, unscrupulous shyster of the old American West.

That tinhorn cheated at craps! After him, boys!

by ScottX March 25, 2008

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the thing that you don’t have when you’re phones percentage is over 20

phone: why don’t you go to sleep tommy it’s 2 in the morning?
tommy:why don’t you die you dumbazz

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Only in central and northern Oklahoma, the word tinhorn sometimes refers to a culvert.

Be sure to replace that old tinhorn when you repave the driveway.

by argyle_zombie May 28, 2009

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low quality or not desireable; see bunk

I'm outta duckets!
Man, that's tinhorn.

by i, robot July 17, 2004

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