🗡️ A curved sword 🍾 To open with blade ⚔️ To cut with sword

to saber

8.1

To open a bottle by cutting its neck with a sword

verb
/ˈseɪbər/

: abrir con un sable

She carefully sabered the bottle of sparkling wine with a swift motion, impressing all her friends.
sabered champagne

Examples

He sabered the champagne bottle with flair.
Don't saber the bottle too hard!
He expertly sabered the champagne bottle to start the celebration.
At the ceremony, the chef demonstrated how to saber a bottle safely.
She watched a video to learn how to saber sparkling wine for the party.
At the celebration, he demonstrated how to saber a bottle of champagne, making a clean cut in the neck.
To add flair to the party, they decided to saber the champagne instead of using a traditional corkscrew.

Synonyms

to lance

vsto saber

5 7.0

Cut a skin sore to let out fluid

cuts to open bottles or containers, often in ceremonial use

Compounds

saber-toothed

6 7.8

An animal with long curved front teeth like a saber used for hunting

saber rattling

Literature

4 7.7

Showing weapons to scare other countries without fighting

saber-toothed tiger

4 7.7

A large extinct cat with long curved front teeth that lived long ago

saber saw

Specialized

1 6.7

A handheld power tool that cuts wood and other materials with a blade that moves back and forth

false saber-toothed tiger

9.9

A large extinct North American cat from millions of years ago with long front teeth like later saber-toothed cats

How Forceful

to break open

13 2.1

to saber

8.1

to pull off

41 2.7

to uncork

5 3.7

Surface Forms

saber infinitive

sabered past

sabered past participle

saber-ing present participle

sabers third person singular

Etymology

Saber for opening a bottle comes from a French show move called sabrage, where a person uses a sabre to knock off a bottle top and free the 'cork'. So to saber a bottle is to open it with a sword.