Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The tab of a container that can be pulled off to make an opening.
- noun A container having such a tab.
- adjective Having a tab that can be pulled up or off to make an opening in a container.
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Examples
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Whether you are the type who goes for flaunting traditional bling, or a non-traditionalist who got engaged with a soda can pop-top, there is something beautifully symbolic about the tradition of exchanging rings to symbolize a long-lasting commitment to your partner.
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I nodded to the cab-over pop-top in the back of their white Toyota Tundra.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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We came awake and instantly the canvas sides of the pop-top were rinsed in red light.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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Back at the Vanagon, nestling under the flannel sleeping bags in our second-story pop-top, marinating in diesel exhaust, I said, Those were your people in there.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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Theyre small plastic pop-top bottles that hold only about 3 or 4 ounces.
ChiRunning Danny Dreyer 2009
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Id planned to lower the pop-top for after-dark Las Vegas cruising, which it soon would be, so I unlatched the manual locks and hit the chrome control knob that had been futuristic in the fifties and Dolly was gettin down.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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Tahari also showed a "rich" assortment of downturn jewelry: big hoop pipe-cleaner earrings, bandage rings, pop-top chain bracelets, and necklaces of yarn, string, and electric wire.
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Id planned to lower the pop-top for after-dark Las Vegas cruising, which it soon would be, so I unlatched the manual locks and hit the chrome control knob that had been futuristic in the fifties and Dolly was gettin down.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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But the group announced this week that it is recalling pistachios sold in pop-top cans by scouts in 18 states.
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All combined, it's a little over the, you might say, pop-top -- even for a city already dubbed by local boosters the "Napa Valley of beer."
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