noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hip flask
vacuum flask
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hip
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She took her hip flask from her coveralls and emptied it in one long gulp.
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Biff had drawn up a stool nearby and was drinking from a hip flask enjoying the spectacle.
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The hip flask was in the glove compartment.
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Very handy with a hip flask , but didn't look as if he could tell a Renoir from a Renault.
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The comedian waited were he was, swigging from his hip flask .
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Bernice suddenly found she badly needed a drink, but her hip flask was empty.
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But he filled his hip flask .
■ NOUN
thermos
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They pulled out a book and a thermos flask , and settled in for the long night ahead.
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The case contained only his sandwich box and his thermos flask of coffee.
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Hot soup, stew or casserole in a thermos flask , plus a roll - but no butter or margarine.
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I would also have managed to acquire a Thermos flask .
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They screwed the caps back on to their thermos flasks , and jammed down the lids of their now empty plastic sandwich containers.
vacuum
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Fairfax's steward has packed sandwiches for us and an ancient vacuum flask of tea.
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What if we place Professor Summerlee upon the table, within the vacuum flask , in place of the cat?
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What is it about vacuum flasks that makes every drink taste like there's a chunk of dead mouse at the bottom?
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Keep the mixture in a vacuum flask for 6-8 hours.
■ VERB
take
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She took her hip flask from her coveralls and emptied it in one long gulp.
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Slumping down into his seat, he took a silver flask from his coat pocket.
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I took the flask out and had a pull.
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He took out a flask from his vest pocket and poured it into the glass.
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He cursed, took a flask from his pocket and drank.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alternatively the embryo culture dishes can be placed in sealed flasks pre-equilibrated with a mixture of 5% CO2 in air.
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Angus thought everyone looked so chilly that he shivered in sympathy and took a swallow from his flask .
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Another takes a sip from a flask in a paper bag.
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Brown headlands, ribbons of current, purple and turquoise waters clear as a flask all shivered and dazzled.
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He drank some whisky from the flask in his pack.
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They even shared cream cakes and tea from a flask at half-time.
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What collectors refer to as historical flasks are glass bottles blown into metal molds between about 1815 and 1870.