lung-opener
n.— «Oxford reached a rating of 45 in a 25-stroke lung-opener to the scratch’s 42 and continued to pull out leads in their subsequent work.» —“Rowing: Lightly Forceful” by Christopher Dodd Guardian (U.K.) Mar. 25, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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