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tinopener

tinopener 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 tinopener

pluraltinopeners

Questions about tinopener

What is tinopener the alternative form of?
Tinopener is the alternative form of tin opener.

Words near tinopener in the dictionary

  1. tinodontid
  2. tinodontids
  3. tinola
  4. tinolas
  5. Tinonee
  6. tinopener
  7. tinopeners
  8. tinoridine
  9. Tinos
  10. tinosporaside
  11. tinosporide

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tinopener (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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