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tin-opener
noun
a small tool for opening tins
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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.
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Nobody would say the tin can was cutting-edge technology, although the more literal-minded might make that claim for the tin-opener.
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Earlier this month Bayer Leverkusen player Julian Brandt was quoted by World Soccer Magazine describing his team-mate Leon Bailey in admiring terms: "He's often our tin-opener, the guy who opens the scoring or comes up with the winner. In this sort of form, he's worth his weight in gold."
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It's then that they discover they have no tin-opener.
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It's a tin with a tin-opener inside the tin.
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