unstopper
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]unstopper (third-person singular simple present unstoppers, present participle unstoppering, simple past and past participle unstoppered)
- (transitive) To remove the stopper from.
- He unstoppered the little flask and took a few swigs.
- 1922 October, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Part II. A Game of Chess.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, page 18:
- In vials of ivory and coloured glass / Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes, / Unguent, powdered, or liquid— […]