ring pull

noun

ring pull

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:

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