clothes pin

1. 1.

   wood or plastic fastener; for holding clothes on a clothesline

   Synonymsclothespinclothes peg

   Broaderfastener

Questions about clothes pin

What does clothes pin mean?

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

What is another word for clothes pin?

Close synonyms include clothespin, clothes peg. 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 pin a common word?

clothes pin 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.