tinhorn
someone, especially a gambler, who pretends to be important but actually has little money, influence, or skill.
cheap and insignificant; small-time: a tinhorn racket.
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How to use tinhorn in a sentence
That makes them mad and the tinhorn bunch keep stirring up trouble.
Corporal Cameron | Ralph ConnorBut we don't get many men with your background—cop, tinhorn, fighter—who have brains enough for our work.
Police Your Planet | Lester del ReyWhen tinhorn dealt him another jack he bought more chips and backed his pair, for tinhorn, as yet, had none in sight.
'Me-Smith' | Caroline LockhartThe next turn showed up a queen for tinhorn and a three-spot for Smith.
'Me-Smith' | Caroline LockhartBut there was one person his story did involve, and that was Spiker, the tinhorn, tenderfoot sport of Noches.
Mavericks | William MacLeod Raine
British Dictionary definitions for tinhorn
/ (ˈtɪnˌhɔːn) US slang /
a cheap pretentious person, esp a gambler with extravagant claims
cheap and showy
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