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letter opener
noun
A knifelike device with a blunt edge, used for slicing letters open.
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In one game, Nana had his shaved scalp cut open the way a letter opener slices an envelope.
He opened the mail with a letter opener.
I hurry to a locked cabinet, choosing a slim bone-handled letter opener, the only proper way to open a precious piece of correspondence from the Continental Drift Club.
She pulled open a drawer and took out a letter opener.
She slits it open manually; this is one woman with no need of a letter opener.
It was a letter opener, but this was not your typical letter opener.
He slit the wrapping deftly with a letter opener.
A letter opener, in particular, caught his eye.
This behavior of using a letter opener has not persisted.
"How fascinating," Dr. Anastasi replied, letter opener in hand.
"It makes a good letter opener," one little boy said of the prosthetic hip.
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