Tinnie
Full definition of tinnie
Noun
- (Australia, slang) A can of beer.
- 2005, Jack Leonard, Bad Altitude, %22tinnies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=EbEQa0GPg3&sig=cd_lEu4ojvpK64Tx8mkPZoU7b2k&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I7SEUOjuDIrUmAXG74GYDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22tinnie%22|%22tinnies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 170,Far better to send one of the girls out for a pizza and some tinnies, and then give her undivided attention when she returns.
- 2008, Peter Dragicevich, Jolyon Attwooll, Sydney, Lonely Planet, %22tinnies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=e7ZN5u98zR&sig=JPaLvpROQ7h6RmK5FpR1TLV-qdQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I7SEUOjuDIrUmAXG74GYDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22tinnie%22|%22tinnies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 154,In a city where alcohol was once the main currency (see p23), it′s little wonder that drinking is a big part of the social fabric – whether it′s knocking back some tinnies on the beach or meeting mates at the pub.
- 2011, Calvin Wade, Forever Is Over, %22tinnies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=qPgK6Sn6AX&sig=_XdxmopSFJ_mv_Jarbcxm90bIow&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I7SEUOjuDIrUmAXG74GYDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22tinnie%22|%22tinnies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 378,I′m forty and Tyrene says if I keep supping the tinnies at this rate it won′t be long before I′m forty stone! I′m nineteen stone right now and if I had a dollar for every time Tyrene called me a “big, fat, lazy bastardâ€, I could charter a yacht and sail to the Whitsundays and we live in Perth!
- (Australia, slang) A small open aluminium boat.
- 2003, Christopher Cummings, The Mudskipper Cup: A North Queensland Story about Navy Cadets, %22tinnies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=kyLGReGwM3&sig=LMBNLuZZCDkV_miLEXsmoPgTgBc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OK2EUPimIceViAfNtoDABA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22tinnie%22|%22tinnies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 355,The bullies laughed and whistled and the tinnie turned once more, this time racing straight towards them from the port beam, bows tilted up, spray creaming out.
- 2007, Caroline De Costa, Rookwood Island, %22tinnies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=h9SE-JqPEr&sig=U4TUg4D1ccRl57tUXyO_0SKAHP8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OK2EUPimIceViAfNtoDABA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22tinnie%22|%22tinnies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 239,Part of the tinnie could be seen pushed up against the bank but otherwise it had all sunk.
- 2009, Rebecca Pannell, Seachange, Where Fish Fly, Susan Hosking, Rick Hosking, Rebecca Pannell, Nena Bierbaum (editors), Something Rich and Strange: Sea Changes, Beaches and the Littoral in the Antipodes, %22tinnies%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=OePv-8xBIy&sig=A_dkfpMgBW5DE-AawXwm6RiXUN0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I7SEUOjuDIrUmAXG74GYDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22tinnie%22|%22tinnies%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 56,The miracles seem to have followed Kevin and Trevor who have remarkably travelled over fifty-eight nautical miles in little more than a tinnie, encountering all sorts of astounding natural phenomena such as enormous whales and strangely behaving sharks, bixarre star patterns and odd schools of fish.
- (New Zealand, slang) Small package of drugs wrapped in foil.
