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swinging door

swinging door noun: a door that is opened by either pushing or pulling from either side (i.e. opens both ways) and is not normally capable of being locked.

Noun

swinging door (plural swinging doors)

  1. A door that is opened by either pushing or pulling from either side (i.e. opens both ways) and is not normally capable of being locked.
    • The restaurant's kitchen was separated from the dining room by a swinging door.
    • Two barmaids who looked like mother and daughter hustled between the tables and shouted out lunch orders to the bartender who then shouted them through a swinging door door back to the kitchen.2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 31, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 162
    Synonyms:
    swing door

Synonyms of swinging door

Forms of swinging door

pluralswinging doors

Questions about swinging door

What does swinging door mean?
Swinging door means a door that is opened by either pushing or pulling from either side (i.e. opens both ways) and is not normally capable of being locked.
What part of speech is swinging door?
Swinging door is a noun.
What is the plural of swinging door?
The plural of swinging door is swinging doors.

Words near swinging door in the dictionary

  1. swinging bunt
  2. swinging bunts
  3. swinging by
  4. swinging dick
  5. swinging dicks
  6. swinging door
  7. swinging doors
  8. swinging for
  9. swinging for the fences
  10. swinging into action
  11. swinging off

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