lemon squeezer

See also: lemon-squeezer

English

A glass lemon squeezer

Alternative forms

• lemon-squeezer

Noun

lemon squeezer (plural lemon squeezers)

1. A device used to extract juice from lemons by crushing the lemon using the sharp middle part.
2. (Cockney rhyming slang) A geezer; a man.
   • 2020, S. C. Hamill, Brick Lane. East-End Pub-Share, page 107:

     Oh well, your loss big feller. Just lead the way my old lemon squeezer, there's a good man.

3. (slang) A kind of broad-brimmed hat with a symmetrically pinched crown resembling the top of a lemon squeezer (juicing device).

Translations

device used to extract juice from lemons

• Basque: zukugailu
• Dutch: citruspers (nl) f, citroenpers f
• Finnish: sitruspuristin
• French: presse-citron (fr) m
• Galician: espremedor (gl) m
• German: Zitronenpresse (de) f
• Hungarian: citromprés (hu), citromfacsaró (hu), citromcsavaró
• Italian: spremiagrumi m
• Japanese: 絞り器 (shiboriki), スクイーザー (sukuīzā)
• Kannada: ನಿಂಬೆ ಹಿಂಡುಗ (kn) (nimbe hiṇḍuga)
• Korean: 레몬 즙 짜개 (remon jeup jjagae)
• Luxembourgish: Zitrounepress f
• Norwegian: sitruspresse
• Polish: wyciskarka do cytryn f
• Portuguese: espremedor (pt) m
• Spanish: exprimidor m
• Swedish: citruspress (sv) c
• Turkish: limonluk (tr)