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tin-opener

noun

  1. a small tool for opening tins
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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After she brought him a tin-opener and can of beans, he asked her how she thought a tin-opener worked, he said.

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After she brought him a tin-opener and can of beans, he asked her how she thought a tin-opener worked, he said.

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Nobody would say the tin can was cutting-edge technology, although the more literal-minded might make that claim for the tin-opener.

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Earlier this month Bayer Leverkusen player Julian Brandt was quoted by World Soccer Magazine describing his team-mate Leon Bailey in admiring terms: "He's often our tin-opener, the guy who opens the scoring or comes up with the winner. In this sort of form, he's worth his weight in gold."

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It's then that they discover they have no tin-opener.

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