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A waiter's friend

waiter's friend (plural waiter's friends or waiters' friends)

  1. A type of corkscrew having a folding design and including a small blade resembling a pocketknife
    Synonym: waiter's knife

    • 2006, Stephen Downes, Paris on a Plate, page 136:

      When I ask the smiling African Frenchman behind the till how I get my wine opened, he hands me a waiter's friend.