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Plural of clout

regular plural

The plural of clout is clouts.

Forms of clout

Singularclout /klaʊt/
Pluralclouts
Countablecountable and uncountable

Clouts in a sentence

  • The Byzantines, wrote Robert of Clari, hooted and jeered from the battlements, "and let down their clouts and showed them their backsides."1980, Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians, page 33
  • Yesterday's pleasant weather should have brought an increase in certain felonies — purse snatches, street holdups, car clouts, convenience-store stickups, ATM rips.2006, Michael A. Graham, The Snow Angel. From the entry car clout

Meaning of clout

  1. noun Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
  2. noun A blow with the hand.
  3. noun A home run.

Full definition of clout

Questions about the plural of clout

What is the plural of clout?
The plural of clout is clouts.
Is clout countable?
Clout is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clout (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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