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kitchen match
noun
- a wooden friction match with a large head, used especially for igniting gas ovens or burners.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of kitchen match1
First recorded in 1950–55
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Liyana slipped outside with the front page and the box of kitchen matches.
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The late general-assignment reporter Bob Barr was lighting his pipe in the newsroom, throwing his kitchen match into his nearby wastebasket.
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Then, from a nearby worktable, he retrieved a box of kitchen matches.
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The mechanical illuminated dial featured a sleeve at the top of the clock into which you would insert an unlit kitchen match.
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Each receiver is about half an inch long and the diameter of a kitchen match, and it goes right into the ear canal.
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