TINPOT

PRONUNCIATION: (TIN-pot)

MEANING: adjective: Unimportant; of little worth.

ETYMOLOGY: Alluding to a tin pot, in quality or sound, broadly from a reference to tin as a base metal compared to precious metals. Earliest documented use: 1838.
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INPOT - your status after calling a bet

LIN-POT - composer Manuel Miranda's beer-belly

TIN PLOT - one kind of mining survey