tin-type Photogr.
(ˈtɪntaɪp)
Also tintype.
[f. tin n. + type.]
a. A photograph taken as a positive on a thin tin plate: cf. ferrotype 2. Also attrib.
| 1864 E. W. Pearson Lett. from Port Royal (1906) 243 You will probably in due course..see the tin-types of Rose and Demus. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 1684/2 Ferrotypes, or tintypes, as they are sometimes called. 1889 Anthony's Photogr. Bull. II. 173 Having dallied with our very attractive art since the early days of tintypes. 1894 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. XLI. 68 The tin-type man still continues to employ collodion. |
b. Colloq. phr. (orig. U.S.) not on your tintype, certainly not. Cf. not on your Nelly s.v. nelly2.
| 1900 Ade Fables in Slang 78 Oh, rats! Not on your Tintype. 1918 E. E. Cummings Let. 11 Sept. (1969) 52 Not on your tintype; as Uncle George ecstatically would remark. 1934 C. Stead Seven Poor Men of Sydney iii. 100 Does the Pope keep beggars, or the Vatican police hand out alms? Not on your tintype! But you do, Jo. 1963 P. H. Johnson Night & Silence xvii. 109 No,..she couldn't make a breakfast for three gentlemen... ‘I got standards... Two gents, just about. Three, not on your tintype.’ 1970 S. J. Perelman Baby, It's Cold Inside 118 Let's eschew all pious cant to the effect that it turned to ashes in my mouth. Not on your tintype—it was nectar. |
Hence ˈtin-typer, a photographer who takes tin-types.
| 1892 Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker iii. 43 The trade of a tin-typer proved too narrow for the lad's ambition. |