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The unsung hero of every bottle, the period at the end of a liquid sentence.
means A plug or cap that seals the opening of a bottle, jar, or other container to keep its contents in and the world out.
from From the verb "stop" plus the agent suffix "-er," making it literally "the thing that stops." "Stop" itself comes from Old English "stoppian," meaning to plug or block up, and is thought to trace back through Late Latin "stuppare" — to stuff with tow or coarse flax — from "stuppa," the bundle of fibre once jammed into holes to seal them. So the very first stoppers were wads of plant fibre, and the word still carries the memory of that humble cork-before-cork.
- goalkeeper slang
- Cricketers call their wicketkeeper a stopper too
- chemistry hero
- Glass stoppers seal reactions that would eat rubber alive
- showstopper
- The word means both ending things and dazzling crowds
- ancient tech
- Cork stoppers sealed Egyptian wine jars millennia ago
reliant robin — three-wheeled car that famously tipped over easily, featured on top gear being repeatedly toppled
cork stoppers — traditional wine bottle closures used since the 1600s, made from cork oak bark
mariano rivera — legendary baseball closer with 652 career saves, most in mlb history