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tinpot

(ˈtɪnˌpɒt)

adj (prenominal)

1. inferior, cheap, or worthless

2. paltry; unimportant

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Adj.

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.

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scadente

tinpot

[ˈtɪnpɒt] ADJ → de pacotilla, de poca monta

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

tinpot

[ˈtɪnˌpɒt] adj (Brit) (fam) (dictator, government) → da due soldi

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