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safety pin

1

noun

  1. a pin bent back on itself to form a spring, with a guard to cover the point.


safety-pin

2

[ seyf-tee-pin ]

verb (used with object)

, safe·ty-pinned, safe·ty-pin·ning.
  1. to secure or affix with a safety pin:

    to safety-pin a child's mittens to his coat sleeve.

safety pin

noun

  1. a spring wire clasp with a covering catch, made so as to shield the point when closed and to prevent accidental unfastening
  2. another word for pin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of safety pin1

First recorded in 1855–60

Origin of safety pin2

First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences

It’s also helpful to have sewing or safety pins, a straightedge, and a piece of chalk, but you can get by without those items.

I’m that person who has pants with cuffs held up by carefully positioned safety pins.

It was a massive hit, and the safety-pin dress a brilliant cartoonish cherry on top of it.

In another short, the actress had to act like she was eating a doll head with a safety pin through it on a cracker.

You know that he must have been a tormented genius, or one for whom everything clicked as tidily as a safety pin.

About his body hung an old duck jacket, so rotted with rust and mildew as to lend scant anchorage for one brass safety pin.

It was of the safety-pin order, but made of gold and ornamented with small emeralds set as a four-leafed shamrock.

Now to divide for the neck: K 34, and slip these st on to a safety-pin.

Safety-pin employed in the toilet of Edward VI when an infant.

Already in the safety-pin and scarf-pin we have had instances of fastenings which at times are ornamental.

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