unstopper
Example Sentences
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The finest prefaces and afterwords, meanwhile, are “restorative. They unstopper the vial that contains, like some volatile oil, the fragrance of the time in which the prefaced work was engendered, conceived, or written, summoning for writer and reader alike a sensuous jolt of things past.”
From Los Angeles Times
“Unstopper it for me, Harry, my hands are shaking.”
From Literature
In the brief time that the laboratory technician took to unstopper and stopper the milk bottle—for example, to add fruit flies—the mother moth made a dive-bombing pass, dropping her eggs on the run into the tasty molasses.
From Literature
Unstopper, un-stop′ėr, v.t. to open, as a bottle, by taking out the stopper.
From Project Gutenberg
Rather they should see them as tools which, skill fully used, will unstopper the economy so that the forces for full employment, i.e., war-created markets and huge savings, are freed in a steady stream, not one dam-breaking burst.
From Time Magazine Archive
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