tin opener

See also: tin-opener

English

Noun

tin opener (plural tin openers)

1. (British, Australia) a can opener.
   • 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 6:

     But I recall that those tin openers ran hot opening tin after tin of rubberised peach quarters and pulverised fruit salad to fill the "hollow legs" of an expanding population.

Alternative forms

• tin-opener, tinopener

Translations

tin opener — see can opener

Anagrams

• epinetron, interpone, neopterin, peritenon