ring pull

See also: ring-pull

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Noun

ring pull (plural ring pulls)

  1. A ring-shaped extension on the top of a can or tin, which one pulls to open it.
    When I tried to open a tin of soup, the ring pull broke off, and I had to use a tin opener instead.
    • 2023 February 8, Conrad Landin, “Bon appetit: 150 years of railway dining”, in RAIL, number 976, page 47, photo caption:
      A steward tackles the ring pull on a can of Carlsberg Pilsner in 1966.

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