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tinfoil hat

noun

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  1. A piece of headgear made from one or more sheets of tin foil, aluminium foil, or other…

    A piece of headgear made from one or more sheets of tin foil, aluminium foil, or other similar material; especially when worn in the belief that it shields the brain from electromagnetic fields or against mind control or mind reading.

    • Jeanne Due's ingenuity has sent the most remarkable of hats, this being the now notorious tinfoil hat, pictured elsewhere. The strangest part about this weird creation, however, is the fact that it is not unbecoming, but quite wearable.
    • To prevent them from reading his mind, he wore a tinfoil hat at all times.
    • I mean, as much as any daughter, I want to make sure my mother is headed for happiness and not heartbreak, but Connie's taken it up a notch, to tinfoil-hat territory.

  2. A conspiracy theorist.

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