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Flip-Top

[flip-top] Trademark.
1. a brand name for a cigarette box having a hinged upper lid or cover.
–adjective
2. (lowercase) pop-top (def. 1).
–noun
3. (lowercase) pop-top (defs. 2, 3).

pop-top

[pop-top]
–adjective
1. (of a can) having a top with a tab or ring that when pulled up or off exposes a precut hole or peels off the entire lid.
–noun
2. Also, pop top. a can having such a top: drinking beer from a pop-top.
3. the top itself.
4. the tab or ring fastener, esp. when removed from such a can: a vest made entirely of pop-tops.
Also called pull-top, flip-top.


Origin:
1965–70, Americanism
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