tin-opener
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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After she brought him a tin-opener and can of beans, he asked her how she thought a tin-opener worked, he said.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2021
It's a tin with a tin-opener inside the tin.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2012
He was a schemer with a left foot that worked as football's equivalent of the tin-opener.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2010
There was the drawer in the kitchen table that contained, besides knives and forks, a rolling-pin, a tin-opener, a corkscrew, skewers and, most exciting of all, a club-shaped cage for whipping eggs.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton
"And what happened then," inquires the wide-eyed young thing, "after you had caught the Hun tank by the tail and ripped it up with a tin-opener?"
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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