clothesline

Plural: clotheslines

Noun

• a cord on which clothes are hung to dry
• A rope or cord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry.
• A structure with multiple cords for the same purpose, such as a Hills hoist.
• 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.

Verb

• To knock (a person) over by striking them across the neck or upper body with an outstretched arm, mimicking the motion of running into a low clothesline.

Examples

• Hang this towel out on the clothesline for me.
• The referee called a personal foul, when he clotheslined the running back.

Synonyms

washing line

Related Words

clothes peg, clotheshorse