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Thu 18 Aug, 2011 08:19 pm
Can anyone tell me the name of the stringlike piece of plastic one pulls around the top end of a cigarette package to remove the plastic?
I don't think it has a name. If you invented one, maybe you could make it into the OED.
Oh! They have those on gum too. There has to be a name for that kind of packaging.....
I've seen it referred to as a "pull-tab"
I think that's the thing on the top of the soda can.
@MontereyJack,
Ring pull here, or pop tab.
@MontereyJack,
All these things have names, MJ. I had a picture dictionary of commercial products, the name of which eludes me now, that listed the name for every possible thing imaginable. I hardly knew any of them. It made for some great practice for students to practice expressions of doubt.
@hingehead,
Yeah? I though aglets were the little plastic ends on shoelaces.
@roger,
Any further discussion by me should be band.
@oolongteasup,
Any further discussion by me will likely only be bland.
@roger,
incomprehensible me likely further any discussion will be
package ribbon..
(yawns to self)
smarty pants. I googled it (naturally) and got this from a book on Amazon on how to produce and market your own DVDs. It says you have to be very specific in telling your duplicator how you want it packaged, specifying "cigarette-stripped shrink wrap (standard clear plastic wrapping, so named because you pull a strip to open it just as on a package of cigarettes)", so in the packaging industry, if they're right, it's called a cigarette strip.
@MontereyJack,
How bout we just go with cigarip and call it a day.
Anything I don't know the name for, I just call it a 'thingy.' Works for me.
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