lemon squeezer

See also: lemon-squeezer

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• lemon-squeezer

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Noun

lemon squeezer (plural lemon squeezers)

1. A device used to extract juice from lemons by crushing the lemon using the sharp middle part.
2. (Cockney rhyming slang) A geezer; a man.
   • 2020, S. C. Hamill, Brick Lane. East-End Pub-Share, page 107:

     Oh well, your loss big feller. Just lead the way my old lemon squeezer, there's a good man.

3. (slang) A kind of broad-brimmed hat with a symmetrically pinched crown resembling the top of a lemon squeezer (juicing device).

Translations

device used to extract juice from lemons

Basque: zukugailu Dutch: citruspers (nl) f, citroenpers (nl) f Finnish: sitruspuristin French: presse-citron (fr) m Galician: espremedor (gl) m German: Zitronenpresse (de) f Hungarian: citromprés (hu), citromfacsaró (hu), citromcsavaró Italian: spremiagrumi m Japanese: 絞り器 (shiboriki), スクイーザー (sukuīzā) Kannada: ನಿಂಬೆ ಹಿಂಡುಗ (kn) (nimbe hiṇḍuga) Korean: 레몬 즙 짜개 (remon jeup jjagae) Luxembourgish: Zitrounepress f Norwegian: sitruspresse Polish: wyciskarka do cytryn f Portuguese: espremedor (pt) m Spanish: exprimidor (es) m Swedish: citruspress (sv) c Turkish: limonluk (tr)