(a.) Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Everything he sang about is still true today," said Oluwole, a taxi driver waiting for petrol as a tape played Fela on a tinny loop.
(2) ‘W e voted for you to go home.” Those were the words flung at 34-year-old Tinni Guha Roy, a former member of the GB rowing team, on a London train in the aftermath of Britain’s EU referendum.
(3) Then he broke down, his voice audibly cracking across the tinniness of the loudspeaker.
(4) Tinny iPhone powered, accompanied renditions of Flower of Scotland and the Proclaimers on a loop (my request for the Krankies' Fandabidozi for some themed relief went ignored).
(5) No more does British public transport throb to the strains of LMFAO's Sexy and I Know It , played on the tinny mobiles of hooded young men.
(6) Mick Jones from the Clash was Grant's cousin, and we'd blast his tapes from the tinny stereo, singing along to the words while debating the sentiment.
(7) But it simply underlined how incredibly tinny they were as candidates.
(8) In my opinion, it has a dry, tinny, bitter aftertaste.
(9) Labor always rejected concerns by the fishing industry that it was "locking up oceans", saying less than 2% of commercial fisheries' catches would be affected by the new protected areas and recreational fishers would not be affected at all because the parks were hundreds of kilometres offshore and therefore well out of reach of a fisherman in a tinnie.
(10) On the shore you’ll see a few people drinking tinnies and fishing with their mates, and you think ‘who’s happier here?’” Perhaps because of this, relations between crew and guests are unusual, if not unheard of.
(11) From time to time, Syrova's words were punctuated by tinny clinks from the women's handcuffs as they crossed and uncrossed their arms.
(12) The famously good Congolese music is everywhere, from the throbbing clubs of the Matonge district to the tinny transistor radios of people in the street.
(13) The bullets sounded tinny and distant, like in an old arcade game.
(14) "The thrill," said one, whose first download was by Smashing Pumpkins, "even when I listened to the music through my mum's tinny computer speakers."
(15) Their relationship has played out in the press as a tinny, 21st-century retread of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton – the Hollywood insider and the Welsh upstart, with the gender roles reversed.
(16) The first, very serious score was replaced by tinny, faux-heroic music, which made the film funny again.
(17) Under the tinny roof of Songkhla’s commercial port, on Thailand’s south-east coast, the imperial-blue cargo boat that brought Myint Thein back to shore is unloading its catch, barrel by barrel.
(18) John Grant (Gary Bond), a cultured schoolteacher travelling from his isolated bush schoolhouse to Sydney, gets trapped on a stopover that turns into a never-ending alcoholic bender in a wild outback mining town populated entirely by drunken ockers who gamble, guzzle tinnies, fist-fight and hunt kangaroos for sport.
(19) The execution of the film, too, is a world away from the DayGlo tinniness of most 1980s family films.
(20) The novel is also a vehicle for much insiderish fun: drive-by shootings at the editor of the New Statesman Jason Cowley (who becomes a type of car, “slick, tinny, and noisy”); Private Eye editor Ian Hislop (who, given that he went to court to reveal a super-injunction Marr had used to hide his affair with another political journalist, gets nicer treatment than one might expect), is “earnestly and very solemnly working his way through a huge cream cake”.
Vinny
Definition:
(a.) Vinnewed.
Example Sentences:
(1) THE WORLD'S FASTEST BOOKING A few years ago I remember that Wimbledon's Vinnie Jones up-ended Man City's Niall Quinn within about three seconds of the start of the game, and it was said at the time to be a new world record for the fastest-ever booking.
(2) Galavant, a medieval comedy musical filmed in Bristol, features appearances from Ricky Gervais and Vinnie Jones.
(3) Vinny's fame was quick, fickle and fizzled out a generation ago, hence leaving him quite literally sleeping in a skip, pickled by booze.
(4) Joe Pesci's burgundy velvet suit in My Cousin Vinny, tied with Ben Stiller's tracksuits in The Royal Tenenbaums.
(5) Owen Hargreaves Wilfred Zaha Raheem Sterling Vinnie Jones And he played for Wales Gibraltar competed in qualifying for the upcoming Euros for the first time in their history.
(6) It was important that Vinny should work here and prepare very well for the next game, the next two months here, because he hasn't played for us for 60 days."
(7) He did, however, give me the number of a rival IT firm and told me to ask for Vinnie.
(8) Vinnie, who declined to give his last name, was walking out of his house on Elizabeth Street in Linden when he saw police cars rush past his house.
(9) Formulas have been developed for special canned pig meat "Pig meat puree" and "Cheburashka" and horse meat "Konek-gorbunok", and a combination of pig and horse meat "Vinni Pukh", without extractives.
(10) So as you can see, M, Vinny's suit is not the greatest fashion moment for men's fashion onscreen, but it is one of them.
(11) It's like "shaking hands with God", is how former 1986 New Faces finalist Vinny, describes the sublime sensation of fame during the BBC2 Wonderland documentary I Had The X-Factor … 25 Years Ago ( Mon, 9pm, BBC2 ).
(12) Marisa Tomei, who plays Vinny's fiancee in the film was, for no real justifiable reason, given an Oscar for her performance and so instead of the film being remembered as quite a satisfying little comedy, it is sneered at for being the recipient of one of the least deserved Oscars of all time.
(13) Please settle a debate: Joe Pesci's suit in My Cousin Vinny – a great moment in movies for men's fashion, or the greatest moment in movies for men's fashion?
(14) Dan Snyder’s former general manager, Vinny Cerrato, seems to suspect as much , and every crass venal thing everyone knows about Dan Snyder suggests Cerrato isn’t wrong.
(15) Point guard Chris Paul has been his reliable self, Blake Griffin has finally emerged into a reliable second option, the Russell Westbrook to Paul’s Kevin Durant and first year head coach Doc Rivers is not only an improvement on the court from the departed and not-missed-at-all Vinny Del Negro, his presence has made players that normally might normally go to the Lakers more eager to sign with them.
(16) The Vinnie Jones advert features the Bee Gees' hit Staying Alive, which might be a dodgy record but is a perfect rhythmic touchstone.
(17) More modern changes - red cards for professional fouls and no tackling from behind (to combat Claudio Gentile, Vinnie Jones and their ilk), and the revised backpass rule (introduced after a World Cup-record low of 2.21 goals per game in Italia 90) - have all come after this same process: exploitation, then correction.
(18) Yes, Vinnie still holds the world record for the quickest booking, according to the FA's David Barber -a distinction he "earned" after a foul on Dane Whitehouse three seconds into Chelsea's game against Sheffield United in 1992.
(19) In hindsight perhaps ringing Vinnie’s wife would have been a bit more effective.
(20) I tried to talk to the Belgium manager also three months ago when Vinny was injured.