tin cups
Simple drinking containers
Tin cups are small drinking vessels made of tin or tin-plated metal, associated with camping, military mess kits, and humble circumstances.
The phrase evokes simplicity or poverty—prisoners and vagrants drink from tin cups in the cultural imagination.
He rattled his tin cup against the bars.
In golf, the Tin Cup is an informal name for the U.S.
Open, popularized by the 1996 film.
- metalHard conductive solid
- campingOutdoor recreational lodging
- chuck wagonMobile frontier cooking cart
- trail mixPortable snack blend
- enamelHard glossy coating
mug · drinking · dented · rustic · old west · canteen · cowboy · pioneer · army · mess kit · clinking · cold · water · coffee · ladle · prison · hobo · campfire
- chuck wagondutch oven, coffeepot, skillet, cookware, tailgate
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- log cabinlog cabin, chinking, dovetail joints, corner posts, corner post
- utilitarian designShaker furniture, Bauhaus, IKEA, modular shelving, metal shelving
- militariabayonets, medals, military patches, military insignia, dog tags
- cavalry gearsaddles, saddle, bridle, bridles, spurs
material composition
tin cupsporcelain cups
Ceramic drinking vessels
wooden cups · china cups · gold cups · paper cups · plastic cups
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