safety pin

1. 1.

   a pin in the form of a clasp; has a guard so the point of the pin will not stick the user

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Questions about safety pin

What does safety pin mean?

safety pin means "a pin in the form of a clasp; has a guard so the point of the pin will not stick the user".

Is safety pin a common word?

safety 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.