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screwtop
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Word definitions for screwtop in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to a container that has a threaded lid (rather than a cork or push-on top). n. A container that has a threaded lid (rather than a cork or push-on top).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the top of a container that must be screwed off and on
Usage examples of screwtop.
Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars.
When I inquired, I was matter-of-factly informed by the New York GM that he was the boss's coke dealer, kept around so that the boss and upper management could conveniently re-up if their little screwtop bottles ran empty.
In a minute or so he uncovered a plastic screwtop container, about the size of a beer keg.
Fain would I have someone with opposable thumbs to open screwtops, or what will the use in looting be?
Later, I found some empty pop bottles with screwtops and filled them with the gas, then tied rags around their necks, so that they could be turned into Molotov cocktails in a hurry.
Glass, with tightly fitting plastic screwtops, the three little bottles themselves were worth quite a bit.
Fumbling in the drawer for a bottle opener, he wondered, Will the English ever come into the twentieth century and put screwtops on their beer?