What does tin-horn mean?

tin-horn

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English

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"There was an auto salesman in here yesterday that claimed you could always tell a fellow's class by the car he drove, but I says to him, 'Don't be silly,' I says; 'the wisenheimers grab a look at a fellow's nails when they want to tell if he's a tin-horn or a real gent!"'"

tin-horns (plural)

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