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tin-opener

tin-opener is the alternative form of tin opener.

Meaning of tin opener

Noun

tin opener (plural tin openers)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK) a can opener.
    • But I recall that those tin openers ran hot opening tin after tin of rubberised peach quarters and pulverised fruit salad to fill the "hollow legs" of an expanding population.1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 6

Forms of tin-opener

pluraltin-openers

Questions about tin-opener

What is tin-opener the alternative form of?
Tin-opener is the alternative form of tin opener.

Words near tin-opener in the dictionary

  1. tin-foil hat
  2. tin-foil hats
  3. tin-glazed
  4. tin-horn
  5. tin-horns
  6. tin-opener
  7. tin-openers
  8. tin-plate
  9. tin-plated
  10. tin-plater
  11. tin-platers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tin-opener (page history and authors); tin opener (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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