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plural beakers
A flat-bottomed vessel, with a lip, used as a laboratory container. examples
A drinking vessel without a handle, sometimes for the use of children. examples
A mug. examples
(slang, Antarctica) A scientist. quotations
[…] at every meal break he shambled into the galley black-fingered and smelling of engine-grease and concrete floors, to contemplate over his meal the beakers at their round tables chatting away, completely oblivious […]
2008, Kim Stanley Robinson, Antarctica, page 52