straight pin

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   pin consisting of a short straight stiff piece of wire with a pointed end; used to fasten pieces of cloth or paper together

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Questions about straight pin

What does straight pin mean?

straight pin means "pin consisting of a short straight stiff piece of wire with a pointed end; used to fasten pieces of cloth or paper together".

Is straight pin a common word?

straight 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.