salt shaker
noun
a container for salt with a perforated top to allow the salt to be shaken out.
salt shakers
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pluralof salt shaker.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Self-proclaimed Parrot Heads—who still slap stickers on the building and leave flip-flops, salt shakers and other assorted memorabilia outside as a shrine to sunny good times—want instead to memorialize the studio forever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Journal of Antiques notes that salt shakers once contained a block of sorts that was used to mill or break the salt into pieces in the case that it clumped.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2022
That they look like giant salt shakers with a toilet plunger stuck on and glide around like Roombas should make them less frightening, yet somehow it does not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2021
In essence, they become “flying salt shakers of death,” said WVU doctoral student Angie Macias, who was also part of the research team.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2020
That is the choosing of sides and trying to blow a ping pong ball between the goal posts formed by a pair of salt shakers at opposite ends of a table.
From What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know by John Dutton Wright
