What does unwinder mean?
Unwinder means A device that unwinds..
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A device that unwinds..
2010, William Campbell, Apotheosis, Glyd-Evans Press, p. 137, In contrast to the overwhelming sweetness, the cool drink is bitter like coffee, but with a strong bite of alcohol. One sip and I hand it back. Not the time for that sort of unwinder.
It seemed to them the ideal place for those confidential mid-morning potations and games of pool for which the Foreign Office had invented the phrase “elevenses”, after the hour of the morning when one feels one most needs a short swift drink, or a long “unwinder”, to use slang.
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Unwinder means A device that unwinds..
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2010, William Campbell, Apotheosis, Glyd-Evans Press, p. 137, In contrast to the overwhelming sweetness, the cool drink is bitter like coffee, but with a strong bite of alcohol. One sip and I hand it back. Not the time for that sort of unwinder.
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