tinnie

Etymology

tin + -ie

noun

1. (Australia, slang) A can of beer.
   Far better to send one of the girls out for a pizza and some tinnies, and then give her undivided attention when she returns. 2005, Jack Leonard, Bad Altitude, page 170
   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. 2008, Peter Dragicevich, Jolyon Attwooll, Sydney, Lonely Planet, page 154
   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! 2011, Calvin Wade, Forever Is Over, page 378
2. (Australia, slang) A small open aluminium boat.
   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. 2003, Christopher Cummings, The Mudskipper Cup: A North Queensland Story about Navy Cadets, page 355
   Part of the tinnie could be seen pushed up against the bank but otherwise it had all sunk. 2007, Caroline De Costa, Rookwood Island, page 239
   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. 2009, Rebecca Pannell, “Seachange, Where Fish Fly”, in Susan Hosking, Rick Hosking, Rebecca Pannell, Nena Bierbaum, editors, Something Rich and Strange: Sea Changes, Beaches and the Littoral in the Antipodes, page 56
3. (New Zealand, slang) Small package of drugs wrapped in foil.
   Or swapped them for some tinnies, a bottle of El D? 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 25