Crossword clues for opener
opener
- First event in a series
- Doubleheader half
- Church key, e.g
- Bottle ____
- Bartender's tool
- Series start
- Nightcap's counterpart in a doubleheader
- Main event preceder
- Kitchen must
- It concludes the off season
- Bottle cap remover
- Bartending tool
- Swiss Army knife tool
- Season beginner
- Kitchen-drawer device
- It concludes the offseason
- It concludes the off-season
- Initial act
- Game 1 of a series
- First section in a series
- Corkscrew, e.g
- Bottle-cap remover
- Any intro
- Word with eye or can
- Word with bottle or season
- Word with "letter" or "can"
- Word with "garage" or "bottle"
- Word after can or season
- Word after "can" or "letter"
- Warmup act
- Warm-up band
- Tuna access device
- Tool you need to get in the can
- Tins need one
- Start of the regular season
- Series ___
- Second name on the bill
- Season's first game
- Season starter
- Season ___ (first game)
- Regular season starter
- Pair of jacks, e.g
- Letter tool
- Lead-in to the headliner
- Kitchen-drawer item
- Kitchen hand tool
- Headliner preceder
- Handle, e.g
- Game one of a series
- Game 1
- Gadget that removes caps
- First to bet
- First in a playoff series
- First game of thseason
- First game of the series
- First game of a twin bill
- Feature of some corkscrews
- Earliest match
- Doubleheader part
- Corkscrew, for one
- Concert's first song
- Church-key, for one
- Cap remover
- Cap lifter
- Can need
- Can ___ (kitchen tool)
- Bridge hand good enough to start the bidding with
- Bottle drinker's need
- Bottle ___ (bar utensil)
- Bartender's gadget
- Bar tool
- Act that warms up the crowd
- Act that may warm up the crowd
- Device no writer put in line
- One lifting lid or roof briefly upset Frenchman
- Kitchen drawer item
- Intro
- Key, e.g
- Kitchen drawer gadget
- Warm-up act
- Season___
- Series starter
- Kitchen gadget
- First game of the season
- Kickoff or overture
- Word with can or season
- First of two baseball games
- First game of a doubleheader
- Handle, e.g.
- Game one of any series
- One who says "one club," e.g.
- Start of a doubleheader
- Barkeep's gizmo
- First act in a revue
- Act before the headliner
- Corkscrew, e.g.
- Name dropper, often?
- Part of a doubleheader
- Part of a concert that many people impatiently sit through
- The first event in a series
- Diamond event in April
- Kitchen item
- First of a series
- Hand at poker
- It goes with eye or can
- Early April game
- Kitchen device
- First bidder
- Kitchen utensil
- Word with eye or series
- Eye or can follower
- First game in a series
- Key, sometimes
- First of a doubleheader
- Pair of jacks, e.g.
- N.F.L. event in Sept.
- Kitchen tool
- Poker player, at times
- Key, e.g.
- Corkscrew, for wine
- Card player who starts the bidding
- Over: look with care to settle in new batsman
- Over with writer replacing very first song?
- One who says "one club," e.g
- Work Frenchman took up in introduction
- Key work by Descartes perhaps rejected
- Key sporting event about to return
- Key exercise to cut pound?
- Key batsman
- Key - one of two batsman in a side
- Specialist with bat or jemmy, perhaps?
- Frenchman turning up after work, the first in?
- First in to bat
- First batsman
- First batsman in door, perhaps?
- Lord’s debutant role? Old member of Lords welcoming new
- Top-order batsman
- Utensil for cook with less guile?
- Conversation starter
- First of all
- Start of a series
- Starting bid
- Top popper
- First in a series
- First game of a series
- Bar accessory
- Ballpark event
- Show's first number
- First number
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Opener \O"pen*er\, n.
One who, or that which, opens. ``True opener of my eyes.''
--Milton.Specifically: A bottle opener or a can opener; as, you need an opener to get the cap off.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who opens," Old English openere, agent noun from open (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A device that opens something; specifically a tin-opener/can-opener, or a bottle opener. 2 (context card games English) The player who starts the betting. 3 (context card games English) (''in plural'' '''openers''') Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting. 4 (context theater English) The first act in a variety show. 5 (context Islam English) Fatiha 6 (context cricket English) A batsman who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings. 7 (context colloquial English) The first in a series of events, items etc.; the first remark or sentence of a conversation. 8 (context sports English) The first game played in a competition
WordNet
n. the first event in a series; "she played Chopin for her opener"; "the season's opener was a game agains the Yankees"
a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens; "children are talented undoers of their shoelaces" [syn: undoer, unfastener, untier]
a hand tool used for opening sealed containers (bottles or cans)
Wikipedia
Opener may refer to:
- Opening batsman in the game of cricket
- Conversation opener or pick-up line
- Opening act, a performance by an introductory group prior to the main act
- Opener (album), the debut album of 8mm
- Open'er Festival, a contemporary music festival held in Gdynia, Poland
- Can opener
- Bottle opener
Openers may refer to the plural of 'opener', or to:
- Two or more playing cards that form the minimum starting hand to start the betting in draw poker
Opener is the debut album of 8mm.
Usage examples of "opener".
Mopo the murderer, he who vanished from the land after the death of my uncle Dingaan, gave you the little red assegai, did he, Opener of Roads!
He asked me of the Inkosazana-y-Zulu who appeared in the Vale of Bones and of the little assegai she held in her hand, and of the magic of the Opener of Roads, and many other things.
Bingo, brought the opener from the kitchen, handed Bingo his cigarettes, and then disappeared into the improvised darkroom.
The Israelis make them with wire cutters in the bipods and bottle openers on the butt.
I suspected this behavior was the buzzardly equivalent of a cat rubbing itself against your ankle when it hears the can opener.
The knife was little more than a fancy, oversized letter opener he had bought for himself several years ago, but Druery was panic-stricken and terrified, and did not realize the difference.
Constituency Wife, Mark I, the opener of fetes and natural hogger of cameras.
He rolled the handle of the letter opener between his fingers, studying the blade, finding it more interesting than Johar and Samir.
Silently Archer prowled the cabins homey main room, touching things at random: a computer that bristled with Kyles Rube Goldberg additions, books on everything from international banking to five thousand years of Chinese jade, a Baroque flute, a small vase with a branch of rosemary in it, a letter opener that could slice to the bone, and a fishing lure that looked like a tiny hula skirt.
Realizing that warning extended to herself, Tracy harrumphed and tapped the garage-door opener on her visor.
The garrotte goes round his neck at the start of the Allegretto grazioso, keeps turning like you turn a can opener until the breath is out of his body and his neck is cut through.
Chardin Sher and the others in every capacity from door openers to escorts.
Among the most ingenious were pencil sharpeners that could also be used as earpicks, can openers as hair brushes.
Natalie pulled a bottle of Maccabee beer from the bottom of her shoulder bag and used the can opener on her new Swiss Army knife to pop the lid.
She returned with a can opener, two quarts of beer, and a half pint of VO.