Pronunciation Noun
clothesline (plural clotheslines)
- A rope or cord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry.
- Synonyms: washing line
- cot en
- Hang this towel out on the clothesline for me.
- A structure with multiple cords for the same purpose, such as a Hills hoist.
- (North America, 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.
- French: corde à linge
- German: Wäscheleine
- Italian: linea di vestiti
- Portuguese: varal, estendal, estendedouro, tendal
- Russian: бельева́я верёвка
- Spanish: cuerda para tender la ropa f, tendedero, tenderete
clothesline (clotheslines, present participle clotheslining; past and past participle clotheslined)
- (North America, 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 9781781168134)
- 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.
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