Unwinder
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A device that unwinds.
- 2 An alcoholic drink taken as a relaxant. colloquial
"It seemed to them the ideal place for those confidential mid-morning potations and games of pool for which the Foreign Office had invented the phrase “elevenses”, after the hour of the morning when one feels one most needs a short swift drink, or a long “unwinder”, to use slang."
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More examples"It seemed to them the ideal place for those confidential mid-morning potations and games of pool for which the Foreign Office had invented the phrase “elevenses”, after the hour of the morning when one feels one most needs a short swift drink, or a long “unwinder”, to use slang."
Etymology
From unwind + -er.