tinfoil hatter

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Etymology

From tinfoil hat +‎ -er.

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Noun

tinfoil hatter (plural tinfoil hatters)

  1. (slang, derogatory) A person who believes in or propagates conspiracy theories; a conspiracy theorist.
    • 2005 October 17, Margot Roosevelt, “Not in My Water Supply”, in Time:
      The Washington State Dental Association is backing his $300,000 pro-fluoride campaign. Danelle Weaver and her friends, meanwhile, have raised less than $10,000. But they are undaunted. "People think we are tinfoil hatters," says Weaver, "but we're just average families who take the time to research and want what's best for our children."
    • 2012, Roger Bouwman, 99 Days, Lulu.com, published 2012, →ISBN, page 11:
      We then tell the public and get laughed at and called crazy tinfoil hatters and then it happens just as we said it would.
    • 2014, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Love Is the Drug‎, Arthur A. Levine Books, published 2014, →ISBN:
      She doesn't know whom to believe, but she agrees with the tinfoil hatters about one thing: Something is weird here.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tinfoil hatter.

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