tinfoil hatter

English

Alternative forms

• tinfoil-hatter

Etymology

tinfoil hat +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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Noun

tinfoil hatter (plural tinfoil hatters)

1. (slang, derogatory) An individual 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^[1], 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.

Translations

one who believes in conspiracy theories

• Finnish: foliohattu (fi)
• German: Aluhutträger m, Aluhutträgerin f
• Polish: foliarz (pl) m, foliara f
• Swedish: foliehatt (sv) c