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  clothes-peg

  noun

  a clothespin.
• clothes peg
  clothes peg

  noun

  a small wooden or plastic clip for attaching washing to a clothesline

clothes-peg

American  

[klohz-peg, klohthz-] / ˈkloʊzˌpɛg, ˈkloʊðz- /

noun

British.

1. a clothespin.

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clothes peg British  

noun

1. a small wooden or plastic clip for attaching washing to a clothesline

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Etymology

Origin of clothes-peg

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

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Dear Diana after hounds a riding Like—a clothes-peg on a clothes-line?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 by Various

He was a great fat, black-and-white brute, with a head like a hat-box, a tail like a clothes-peg, and a back as broad as a well-fed sheep's.

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith

You are to him simply a clothes-peg and your merit is in exact ratio to the clothes you carry.

From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)

The mere notion of the passage and the clothes-peg and the umbrella-stand annihilated him.

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary

Her clothes hung on her as on a clothes-peg.

From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by Cournos, John

Why not use a clothes peg, or a rubber band?

From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2017

One of the men asks the other for a clothes peg.

From Nature ● Jan. 11, 2016

When police searched Cartwright's house, which he shares with his parents, they found a firework containing a light bulb, an electrified clothes peg and a tub of aluminium powder.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2010

Marius Braun hands me a device that consists of a pair of metal prongs that are spring-loaded and look rather like a large clothes peg.

From Newsweek

"I have been called a clothes peg," he said, "but I have had to submit to it because this is settled by authority, and not by my choice or liking."

From Time Magazine Archive