Opener
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Opener may refer to:
Openers may refer to the plural of 'opener', or to:
- Opening batsmanBatting order (cricket)In cricket, the batting order is the sequence in which batsmen play through their team's innings, there always being two batsmen taking part at any one time...
in the game of cricket - Conversation openerConversation openerA conversation opener is an introduction used to begin a conversation. They are frequently the subject of guides and seminars on how to make friends and/or meet people. Different situations may call for different openers A conversation opener is an introduction used to begin a conversation. They...
or pick-up linePick-up lineA pick-up line is a conversation opener with the intent of engaging an unfamiliar person for romance, or dating. Overt and sometimes humorous displays of romantic interest, pick-up lines advertise the wit of their speakers to their target listeners.... - Opening actOpening actAn opening act or warm-up act is an entertainer or entertainment act that performs at a concert before the featured entertainer...
, a performance by an introductory group prior to the main act - Opener (album), the debut album of 8mm
- Open'er FestivalOpen'er FestivalThe Heineken Open'er Festival is a music festival which takes place on the North coast of Poland, in Gdynia. The first edition of the festival was organized in Warsaw in 2002 as Open Air Festival. The main organizer of the festival is the concert agency Alter Art, but the performance took its name...
, a contemporary music festival held in Gdynia, Poland - Can openerCan openerA can opener is a device used to open metal cans. Although preservation of food using tin cans had been practiced since at least 1772 in the Netherlands, the first can openers were patented only in 1855 in England and in 1858 in the United States. Those openers were basically variations of a...
- Bottle openerBottle openerA bottle opener is a device that enables the removal of metal bottle caps from bottles. More generally, it might be thought to include corkscrews used to remove cork or plastic stoppers from wine bottles....
Openers may refer to the plural of 'opener', or to:
- Two or more playing cards that form the minimum starting hand to start the betting in draw pokerPokerPoker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...