The British and Australian term for what Americans call a can opener — the handheld or mounted kitchen tool used to cut open tins of food. A mundane but surprisingly revealing piece of vocabulary: ask for a tin opener in the US and you'll get blank stares; ask for a can opener in the UK and the same thing happens. It's a perfect example of how everyday household words split across the English-speaking world.
We got all the way to the campsite before realising nobody had packed a tin opener for the baked beans.
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(British, AU) a can opener.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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