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barn-door

barn-door is the alternative form of barn door.

Meaning of barn door

Noun

barn door (plural barn doors)

  1. The large door of a barn.
  2. (humorous) Something large enough that a miss ought to be impossible.
    • Buying a barn door won't help your tennis game.
  3. A player who blocks every ball.
  4. (euphemistic, humorous) The groin area of a pair of pants, especially in reference to a fly.
    • Somebody forgot to close his barn door again!
  5. An off-balance pivot on two points of contact.

See all 6 meanings of barn door

Forms of barn-door

pluralbarn-doors

Questions about barn-door

What is barn-door the alternative form of?
Barn-door is the alternative form of barn door.

Words near barn-door in the dictionary

  1. barn star
  2. barn stars
  3. barn swallow
  4. barn swallows
  5. barn-burning
  6. barn-door
  7. barn-doors
  8. barn-like
  9. barn-raising
  10. barn-raisings
  11. barn-star

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barn-door (page history and authors); barn door (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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