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unwinder

unwinder noun: a device that unwinds.

Noun

unwinder (plural unwinders)

  1. A device that unwinds.
  2. (colloquial) An alcoholic drink taken as a relaxant.
    • It seemed to them the ideal place for those confidential mid-morning potations and games of pool for which the Foreign Office had invented the phrase “elevenses”, after the hour of the morning when one feels one most needs a short swift drink, or a long “unwinder”, to use slang.1982, Lawrence Durrell, chapter 5, in Constance, New York: Viking, page 114
    • In contrast to the overwhelming sweetness, the cool drink is bitter like coffee, but with a strong bite of alcohol. One sip and I hand it back. Not the time for that sort of unwinder.2010, William Campbell, Apotheosis, Glyd-Evans Press, p. 137

Forms of unwinder

pluralunwinders

Origin of unwinder

From unwind + -er.

Questions about unwinder

What does unwinder mean?
Unwinder means a device that unwinds.
What part of speech is unwinder?
Unwinder is a noun.
What is the plural of unwinder?
The plural of unwinder is unwinders.

Words near unwinder in the dictionary

  1. unwind
  2. unwindable
  3. unwindase
  4. unwindases
  5. unwinded
  6. unwinder
  7. unwinders
  8. unwindeth
  9. unwinding
  10. unwindingly
  11. unwindings

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