clothespin

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noun

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

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clothes pegclothes pin
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Meanings

nounclothespin (plural clothespins)

plural clothespins

  1. CanadaUSA 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

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

present singular third person clothespins · participle present clothespinning · participle past clothespinned · past clothespinned

  1. transitiveTo affix with a clothespin.

Synonyms & antonyms

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

Similar
clothes peg

More synonyms by meaning

nounwood or plastic fastener; for holding clothes on a clothesline

Similar
clothes pinclothes peg
Broader
fastenerfasteningholdfast
Also see
clothes peg

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From clothes + pin.

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APA

clothespin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clothespin

MLA

“clothespin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clothespin. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clothespin,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clothespin.

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