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单词 tinny house
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Definition of tinny house in English:

tinny house

noun
NZ informal
  • A house where cannabis is for sale.

    he'd ring round the local tinny house a half hour before the cops went in
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is an urgent need for us to focus on tagging, vandal damage, and tinny houses.
    • Most people who read this article will know of a tinny house or cannabis supplier that they could purchase cannabis from within the next 24 hours.
    • Police said they have carried out 36 searches of tinny houses in the last two weeks.
    • Tinny houses are often hubs for all manner of criminal offending, including the supply of methamphetamine and receiving stolen property.
    • As long as cannabis is sold by gangs through tinny houses, there is no way to stop teenagers getting access to it.
    • Brothels are the places where they will be selling it in bulk, because the brothel will become a tinny house for drug dealing.
    • A student said it was a well-known fact that there was a tinny house nearby, but she had not been sure of its exact location until yesterday morning.
    • The supply is from tinny houses, where young people buying cannabis are introduced to even more dangerous substances.
    • They will tell of the recently renovated apartment converted to a hydroponic dope factory and tinny house.
    • They began talking about returning to the tinny house to steal drugs and cash.

Origin

1990s: from tinny in the NZ sense 'a portion of cannabis wrapped in tin foil' + house.

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