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Petty braggart
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tinhorn
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Tinhorn , formed in 2005, is a Los Angeles based heavy metal group formed by guitarist Harrison Thomas and drummer Jonathan Thomas, sons of Canadian comedian Dave Thomas of SCTV fame. Within two years, the lineup was solidified by the joining of Danny Ball ...
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a. (label en US) cheap, inferior; pretentious. n. (label en US) A contemptible or pretentious person, especially one who gambles for low stakes.
Usage examples of tinhorn.
Rollie, you wavy haired tinhorn son of a bitch, send eighty thousand dollars quick or these boys are gonna put me under.
To Mark, with a long experience of their kind gained in his travels and time as a law officer, they spelled cheap tinhorn card shark, goldbrick salesmen, or petty thief.
Hundreds of little kingdoms run by tinhorn little gods with petty minds and a population that was enslaved and subject to their every whim.
When Captain Jim Newman and his Delta operators had deployed, he and all those with him were confident that they would deal with this petty, tinhorn despot in short order.
There was no support from them, not from Peanut, not from Tinhorn, not from Zona or Calvin or File-none of those who sometimes backed her during the meetings.
Gregg had most of them: Gargantua, Peanut, Tinhorn, File, perhaps twenty others.
Frank Ruff could file twenty-seven notches on his guns if he was tinhorn enough to do it.
Things had come to a sorry pass when a man of his experience and resources was forced to hide out in his hotel room to avoid some tinhorn shooter.
Deacon Knox is just a two-bit tinhorn, but I happen to know who really owns that joint.
Longarm could see by his outfit that he was dressed for town or country in a tinhorn suit, but had stout boots and a large hat creased Texas-style.
Knuckles was seated in a booth this time, sipping suds with the owner and a tinhorn gambler called Ace, up from Texas while the law calmed down about a noisy poker game down there.
She ran off on a hog farmer and two bitty kids with a tinhorn gambler who might or might not have been the drifter who stranded her up in John Bull.
He added he was working on a report about a tall tinhorn and a brassy blonde with a mighty thick accent up around Fort Collins.
As Longarm and others had surmised, the combination of a remote location and all that cross-country traffic passing through a tighter than usual bottleneck had conspired to attract the attention of more than one dangerous tinhorn or out-and-out road agent.
A couple of the tinhorns tried to shoot it out but Shorty was, for a cowhand, mighty good with a gun.