Unwinder
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Unwinder is a noun meaning A device that unwinds.
Meaning
A device that unwinds.
More Meanings
- (colloquial) An alcoholic drink taken as a relaxant.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- unwinders
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unwind, winder, unreeler, rewinding, yarnwindle, wringer.
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