Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A can or bottle opener having a usually triangular head.
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- noun A
can opener having atriangular tip that pierces the can.
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- noun can opener that has a triangular pointed end that pierces the tops of cans
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the resemblance of the cap-gripping end of some bottle openers to the ornamental handles of large keys, such as those used to lock church doors.]
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oroboros commented on the word church key
I suppose the time is coming when nobody will know what this refers to (other than a an *actual* church key, that is)! Everything is pull-tab and twist-top these days.
May 22, 2007
uselessness commented on the word church key
A shame, really. It will be a loss.
(Umm... what's a church key?)
May 22, 2007
trivet commented on the word church key
A bottle opener (see here).
May 22, 2007
oroboros commented on the word church key
AND a can opener--especially beer cans. (See Urban Dictionary link)
May 22, 2007
uselessness commented on the word church key
Oh... kids today! Don't even know what a church key is!
May 22, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word church key
u, what are we *ever* going to do with you?
May 22, 2007
uselessness commented on the word church key
Nothing. Don't even try. It would be useless.
Get it, useless? I kill me...
May 22, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word church key
Kill you? Wordies are dropping like flies stuck to a frog's tongue. It ain't pretty.
May 22, 2007
uselessness commented on the word church key
Maybe I have a fundamental misunderstanding of how adhesion works, but I would expect those flies probably aren't dropping terribly far. Or was that the point? You sure have an interesting way of complimenting folks.
May 22, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word church key
For your edification: I was associating "dropping like flies" (connoting lots of people) with the literal death that a fly would meet on a frog's tongue which I associated with the phrase "you're killing me". So, a backwards way of saying I appreciated the joke. I guess that post needed a ;) for lack normal auditory cues.
May 23, 2007
uselessness commented on the word church key
I feel edified. Thank you.
I also fully understood what you were trying to say. I guess that post needed a }^P for lack of facial sarcasm vibes.
May 23, 2007
fbharjo commented on the word church key
an opener of spirits????
October 12, 2007