clothesline
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See also: clothes line
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) enPR: klōthz'līn, IPA(key): /ˈkləʊðzlaɪn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) enPR: klōthz'līn, IPA(key): /ˈkloʊðzlaɪn/
Noun
[edit]clothesline (plural clotheslines)
- A rope or cord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry.
- Synonym: washing line
- Coordinate term: clotheshorse
- Hang this towel out on the clothesline for me.
- A structure with multiple cords for the same purpose, such as a Hills hoist.
- (Canada, US, informal) The act of knocking a person over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]rope or cord for drying clothes
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Verb
[edit]clothesline (third-person singular simple present clotheslines, present participle clotheslining, simple past and past participle clotheslined)
- (Canada, US, informal, transitive) To knock (a person) over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline.
- The referee called a personal foul, when he clotheslined the running back.
- 2014, Jonathan Wood, No Hero, Titan Books, →ISBN:
- One beast jams out its arm, as if to clothesline me, jagged claws poised to take my head off at the neck. I let my feet fall from under me, throwing my legs forward, praying for some momentum, ducking and sliding, a mad limbo to freedom.
- 2014 February 21, “Ear-bite actor Clive Mantle was like 'big monster', court told”, in BBC News[1]:
- "I turned around and the next thing I was taken out by this big guy. I'm not sure if he punched me or clothes-lined me," he said.
Further reading
[edit]- “clothesline”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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