Meaning & use
Poptop
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A can or container with a metal tab designed to pop or pull open without a separate opener; also a vehicle roof that can be raised for extra headroom.
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He cracked open the poptop can of soda on the porch.
The camper van's poptop roof gave them enough room to stand up inside.
A note on using this word
More commonly written as two words or hyphenated ('pop-top'), it entered wide use with the introduction of easy-open beverage cans in the 1960s.
Words with a similar meaning
pull-tabpop-top
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