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clothes-peg

clothes-peg is the alternative form of clothes peg.

Meaning of clothes peg

Noun

clothes peg (plural clothes pegs)

  1. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK) An object (usually made of wood or plastic) used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline so that it (the laundry) can dry.
    Synonyms:
    clothespin

Forms of clothes-peg

pluralclothes-pegs

Questions about clothes-peg

What is clothes-peg the alternative form of?
Clothes-peg is the alternative form of clothes peg.

Words near clothes-peg in the dictionary

  1. clothes-free
  2. clothes-hanger
  3. clothes-hangers
  4. clothes-horse
  5. clothes-horses
  6. clothes-peg
  7. clothes-pegs
  8. clothes-press
  9. clothes-presses
  10. clothes-prop
  11. clothes-props

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clothes-peg (page history and authors); clothes peg (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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