It was a pretty broad hint that it was time for him to leave, but instead, she took it as a conversation opener.

When I call him up, our voices rising over the static, now I'll have an instant conversation opener.

Talking about conversation openers, he said: "Asking about a pet is personal, without being intrusive."

Becker had, in the not-too-distant past, forcibly washed and barbered the Wats as a conversation opener.

A conversation opener is an introduction used to begin a conversation.

Many venues, such as singles tennis events, etc. are geared toward prop-based conversation openers.

Pick-up lines are conversation openers intended as overt, sometimes humorous displays of romantic interest.

This type of conversation opener is often referred to as small talk and is used to make both people in a conversation feel comfortable.

They provide a stimulus for prop-based conversation openers.

Too, there was a world of easy conversation openers at hand.