tin opener

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a handheld or electric device for cutting open sealed metal food tins

   She used a tin opener to open the can of tomatoes.

A compound of tin, in the British sense of a sealed metal food container, and opener, the instrument noun from open plus -er. Tin opener is the usual British term; can opener is the usual American equivalent. Historical writing often hyphenates the compound.

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