clothes peg

1. 1.

   wood or plastic fastener; for holding clothes on a clothesline

   Synonymsclothespinclothes pin

   Broaderfastener

Questions about clothes peg

What does clothes peg mean?

clothes peg means "wood or plastic fastener; for holding clothes on a clothesline".

What is another word for clothes peg?

Close synonyms include clothespin, clothes pin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clothes peg a common word?

clothes peg is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.