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clothespin

clothespin noun: a clip or fastener used to secure garments to a clothesline while drying, and sometimes for other applications requiring holding or pinching.

clothespin: a clip or fastener used to secure garments to a clothesline while drying, and sometimes for other...
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Noun

clothespin (plural clothespins)

  1. (Canada, US) A clip or fastener used to secure garments to a clothesline while drying, and sometimes for other applications requiring holding or pinching.
    • At a hundred and thirty pounds, Altman is poised as a clothespin, fierce as a horned owl.2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker
    Synonyms:
    clothes peg

Verb

clothespin (third-person singular simple present clothespins, present participle clothespinning, simple past and past participle clothespinned)

  1. (transitive) To affix with a clothespin.

clothespin meaning in Tamil

clothespin in Tamil

துணிக் கொக்கி

Synonyms of clothespin

Forms of clothespin

Noun
pluralclothespins
Verb
third-person singular presentclothespins
present participleclothespinning
past participleclothespinned
pastclothespinned

Origin of clothespin

From clothes + pin.

Words formed from clothespin

Phrases with clothespin

Questions about clothespin

What does clothespin mean?
Clothespin means a clip or fastener used to secure garments to a clothesline while drying, and sometimes for other applications requiring holding or pinching.
What is clothespin in Tamil?
Clothespin in Tamil is துணிக் கொக்கி. See Clothespin meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is clothespin?
Clothespin can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of clothespin?
The plural of clothespin is clothespins.

Words near clothespin in the dictionary

  1. clothesmaking
  2. clothesman
  3. clothesmen
  4. clothespeg
  5. clothespegs
  6. clothespin
  7. clothespin vote
  8. clothespin votes
  9. clothespinned
  10. clothespinning
  11. clothespins

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: clothespin (page history and authors); clothespin (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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