kitchen match

noun

1. a wooden friction match with a large head, used especially for igniting gas ovens or burners.

Word History and Origins

Origin of kitchen match¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

Liyana slipped outside with the front page and the box of kitchen matches.

From Literature

The late general-assignment reporter Bob Barr was lighting his pipe in the newsroom, throwing his kitchen match into his nearby wastebasket.

From Seattle Times

Then, from a nearby worktable, he retrieved a box of kitchen matches.

From The New Yorker

The mechanical illuminated dial featured a sleeve at the top of the clock into which you would insert an unlit kitchen match.

From Washington Post

Each receiver is about half an inch long and the diameter of a kitchen match, and it goes right into the ear canal.

From The New Yorker