Meaning

(Australia, slang) A can of beer..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Australia, slang) A can of beer.
2. (Australia, slang) A small open aluminium boat.
3. (New Zealand, slang) Small package of drugs wrapped in foil.

Example Sentences

Far better to send one of the girls out for a pizza and some tinnies, and then give her undivided attention when she returns.

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.

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 bastard”, I could charter a yacht and sail to the Whitsundays and we live in Perth!

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.

Part of the tinnie could be seen pushed up against the bank but otherwise it had all sunk.

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.

Or swapped them for some tinnies, a bottle of El D?

Word Forms

• tinnies
• tinny

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Use tinnie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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