tinfoil
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1.8
- noun
- /ˈtɪnˌfɔɪl/
- Archaic
:
lámina de estaño
- For our camping trip, we used tinfoil to create makeshift cooking pots over the fire.
- tinfoil wrap
- covered with tinfoil
- sheet of tinfoil
And they had tinfoil taped over all the windows.
- And they had tinfoil taped over all the windows.
- It's perfect for things like Ziploc bags, cling film, tinfoil, parch from paper.
- That's why I never use the dishwasher in the USI just keep it locked and wrapped in tinfoil and hope for the rest.
- So I feel like maybe I should have listened to the Tiktok masters and just done the tinfoil bottom this whole time 'cause it did stick and peel apart.
- People think you're a tinfoil hat kind of guy if you think that.
- Just hurtling through space with just like tinfoil, nothing between me and just void.
- He ran up and he said there were like these like tinfoil type pieces.
- So that's how he knew that I wasn't a tinfoil cat guy.
Examples
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He wrapped the leftovers tightly in tinfoil to keep them fresh.
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So you say every night we got up food and it came in a little tinfoil thing.
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We covered the entire thing in tinfoil.
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Wrap 'em up in tinfoil for five minutes to rest.
Fiction book (2001) -
All you have to do is put some chocolate spread onto some tinfoil or some baking paper.
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Sure, man, you just wrap it up in tinfoil.
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Instead, we were taken for nature walks and taught how to cook an egg using tinfoil.
Fiction book (2000) -
On the counter, tinfoil balanced askew over the plate of Jasmine's homemade chocolate brownies.
Fiction book (2002) -
Theodore has pressed and folded the tinfoil wrapper from his hamburger into a silver square the size of a shirt button.
Fiction book (2000) -
To prevent sticking, cover the baking dish with tinfoil before pouring in the batter.
Synonyms
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2.8
A very thin sheet of metal used to wrap or cover food
17
1.1
A thin sheet of metal used to wrap or cover food for cooking and storage
5
1.0
A thin sheet of metal used to wrap or cover food
Compounds
3
9.9
A hat of thin metal foil people wear because they think it stops mind control or spying
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word tinfoil comes from the metal tin and the word foil, which originally meant a 'thin leaf' of metal. So imagine a very thin 'leaf' of tin wrapped around food to protect it, and that is exactly why we call it tinfoil.