Usually means: Pretentious or fraudulent person, gambler.
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  1. tinhorn: Merriam-Webster
  2. tinhorn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tinhorn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tinhorn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Tinhorn, tinhorn: Wordnik
  6. tinhorn: Wiktionary
  7. tinhorn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. tinhorn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. tinhorn: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. tinhorn: Dictionary.com
  11. Tinhorn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. tinhorn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Tinhorn: World Wide Words

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tinhorn, tinhorn: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tinhorn: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (tinhorn)

adjective:  (US) Cheap, inferior; pretentious.
noun:  (US) A contemptible or pretentious person, especially one who gambles for low stakes.

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