ring pull

A ring-shaped extension on the top of a can or tin, which one pulls to open it.

Noun

  1. A ring-shaped extension on the top of a can or tin, which one pulls to open it.
    • When I tried to open a tin of soup, the ring pull broke off, and I had to use a tin opener instead.
    • A steward tackles the ring pull on a can of Carlsberg Pilsner in 1966. - 2023 February 8, Conrad Landin, “Bon appetit: 150 years of railway dining”, in RAIL, number 976, page 47, photo caption:

Forms

ring pulls ring-pull