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clothes line

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Definition of clothes line

noun

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

verb

  • (clothesline) [with object] North American informal (chiefly in football and other sports) knock down (a runner) by placing one’s outstretched arm in their path at neck level: Ramon clotheslined Owen to the floor

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