eye opener

1. 1.

   an alcoholic drink intended to wake one up early in the morning

   Broaderdrink
2. 2.

   something surprising and revealing

   Broadersurprise

Questions about eye opener

What does eye opener mean?

eye opener means "an alcoholic drink intended to wake one up early in the morning". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is eye opener a common word?

eye opener is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.