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tinpot

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tinpot [ˈtɪnˌpɒt]
adj (prenominal) Brit informal
1. inferior, cheap, or worthless
2. paltry; unimportant
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Adj.1.tinpot - inferior (especially of a country's leadership); "he's a tinpot Hitler"
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom
worthless - lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"
tinpot
adjective (Brit. informal) second-rate, second-class, paltry, miserable, pathetic, inferior, worthless, unimportant, Mickey Mouse (slang), measly (informal), wretched, two-bit (U.S. & Canad. slang), toytown (slang), poxy (slang), chickenshit (U.S. slang), pants (slang), twopenny-halfpenny The island is ruled by a tinpot dictator.
Translations
tinpot [ˈtɪnpɒt] ADJ → de pacotilla, de poca monta
tinpot [ˈtɪnˌpɒt] adj (Brit) (fam) (dictator, government) → da due soldi
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