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  • noun A top that can be opened and closed by screwing.

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Examples

  • I can still hear my cheek slapping a diaper, a screw-top bottle, a well-sucked fooler and a bone!

    Freedom Can Wait Christopher Allen 2011

  • Her mother, a hippy who dressed them in rainbow wellies and ponchos and gave them screw-top jars of muesli for lunch when she was still going to school she was "home-schooled", ie largely left to her own devices, from 11, and never went to university, told her deodorant would give her cancer and that she didn't need a bra.

    The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran 2011

  • I let my 70-year-old dad browse the cellar for dinner accompaniment and he came up with a Sangre de Toro – a screw-top, which he promptly drove a corkscrew into.

    Thanksgiving wines from the Twitterverse…and cellartracker | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • Her mother, a hippy who dressed them in rainbow wellies and ponchos and gave them screw-top jars of muesli for lunch when she was still going to school she was "home-schooled", ie largely left to her own devices, from 11, and never went to university, told her deodorant would give her cancer and that she didn't need a bra.

    The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran 2011

  • I use the screw-top Ziploc containers a lot these days, as I've dropped too many glass jars.

    Use Your Freezer Efficiently To Save Money (and Food) | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • On a time-swept wooden desk stands an open shoe box with a newly arrived batch — little screw-top bottles with homemade labels indicating the year the pressed grapes were distilled, the family's name and telephone number.

    A Slow Path to Perfection Lennox Morrison 2011

  • But when she's hopping planes and zipping from bookstore to bookstore in rented cars, her palate craves a simultaneous burst of salty and sweet, washed down with screw-top Chardonnay.

    Chablis With Brie? No, Cherry Coke and Cool Ranch Katherine Rosman 2011

  • But the big get was Sochaux striker and Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurrcranial screw-top surgery patient Charlie Davies.

    Ignoring the burning wreckage, part 4: the strikers 2011

  • I can still hear my cheek slapping a diaper, a screw-top bottle, a well-sucked fooler and a bone!

    Freedom Can Wait (The First Time) Christopher Allen 2011

  • For marinade, in a screw-top jar combine olive oil, vinegar, finely chopped green onion, oregano, salt, and pepper.

    Carolyn Scott: A Funfilled Father's Day 2010

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