barndoor
barndoor is the alternative form of barn door.
Meaning of barn door
Noun
barn door (plural barn doors)
- The large door of a barn.
- Something large enough that a miss ought to be impossible.
- Buying a barn door won't help your tennis game.
- A player who blocks every ball.
- The groin area of a pair of pants, especially in reference to a fly.
- Somebody forgot to close his barn door again!
- An off-balance pivot on two points of contact.
Forms of barndoor
| plural | barndoors |
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Origin of barndoor
From barn + door.
Words formed from barndoor
Phrases with barndoor
Questions about barndoor
- What is barndoor the alternative form of?
- Barndoor is the alternative form of barn door.
Words near barndoor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: barndoor (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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