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church key noun a can and bottle opener US, 1951 With the advent of pull-ring (1962), the pop-top (1963) and the stay-on tab can (1974), the device and term all but disappeared.- — American Weekly, p. 2, 14 August 1955
- She hooked the church key over the top of each bottle and with a sharp rap of her hand that made a sharp, sucking pok, opened the bottles and handed them up. — Larry Heinemann, Close Quarters, p. 70, 1977
- The real hoods, the serious ones who’d been up the night before fighting with churchkeys and tireirons or knocking up “cheap” girls, spent the days dozing fully clothed[.] — Eve Babitz, Eve’s Hollywood, p. 59, 1984
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