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unwinders

unwinders is the plural of unwinder.

Meaning of unwinder

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

Questions about unwinders

What is unwinders the plural of?
Unwinders is the plural of unwinder.

Words near unwinders in the dictionary

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

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