Definitions for open-and-shut

open-and-shut o·pen-and-shut

Spelling: [oh-puh n-uh n-shuht]
IPA: /ˈoʊ pən ənˈʃʌt/

Open-And-Shut is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 1110 anagrams from letters in open-and-shut (--adehnnopstu).

Definitions for open-and-shut

adjective

  1. immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided:

Origin of open-and-shut

An Americanism dating back to 1835-45

Examples for open-and-shut

Marrying with me in this case is an open-and-shut business proposition.

I'm not suspecting anything, mind, but this has got to be an open-and-shut deal, or I don't go in.

And sometimes the open-and-shut of the steam hog had to go pfisty-pfoost, pfisty-pfoost.

Boys, it's a clean, open-and-shut job—with absolutely nothing to interfere.

But McNeill's could not afford to be shown up before thirty interested rivermen as running an open-and-shut brace-game.

But it had been all over in a breath, just an open-and-shut piece of battiness, same as fellers have when they jump a bridge.

Word Value for open-and-shut
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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