Meaning of tinhattery | Babel Free

Definitions

The belief in, or propagation of, conspiracy theories.

derogatory, slang, uncountable

Examples

“In the weeks and months following the airing of the finale, the tinhattery culminated with the assertion that the producers of Sherlock had created an Alternate Reality Game (which they had bafflingly failed to promote) and had sprinkled clues throughout the Season 4 episodes, in their interviews and social media posts, and all over the internet.”

“There are unanswered questions about Epstein’s death, and they demand answers. Equally, however, there are simpler possibilities here than Trump- and/or Clinton-adjacent tinhattery.”

“It sure does feel like a lot of people engaging in this tinhattery and self-congratulatory ‘well, I never lived Diddy’ crap care less about the victims than they do their own egos.”

CEFR level