ring pull

See also: ring-pull

English

Alternative forms

• ring-pull

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.

Translations

ring for opening a can or a tin

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: avausrengas
• German: Zugring m, Aufreißdeckel m
• Polish: zawleczka f
• Russian: кольцо́-открыва́шка f (kolʹcó-otkryváška)