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paperknife
(redirected from letter opener)

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paperknife
a knife with a comparatively blunt blade, esp one of wood, bone, etc., for opening sealed envelopes


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So, yes, it's time to sift through the stacks of bills on your desk, find the letter opener and prepare to poke your own eyeballs out.
At every job fair, I take off my name tag and wander around checking out all the little trinkets from camps across the country--a letter opener in tie-dye colors, a highlighter with three tips, a bottle opener, pens and pencils of all sizes and shapes, water bottles, and much more.
In the House, the unpleasant bosses include Mark Sanford, who asks his aides to wash his sheets, Sheila Jackson Lee, who "had an intern positioned at her side all day so he'd be ready to open her Sweet 'n Low packets for her," and John Conyers, whose staff's dudes include "babysitting and changing soiled diapers" Rick Hill threw a letter opener at an aide.
 
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