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clothesline

Syllabification: (clothes·line)
Definition of clothesline

noun

  • a rope or wire on which washed clothes are hung to dry.

verb

[with object]
  • North American informal (chiefly in football and other games) knock down (a runner) by placing one’s outstretched arm in the runner’s path at neck level.

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