Usually means: Rope for drying washed clothes.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word clothesline:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. clothesline: Merriam-Webster
  2. clothesline: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clothesline: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clothesline: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clothesline: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clothesline, clothesline: Wordnik
  7. clothesline: Wiktionary
  8. clothesline: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. clothesline: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. clothesline: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Clothesline, clothesline: Dictionary.com
  12. clothesline: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Clothesline (disambiguation), Clothesline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Clothesline: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. clothesline: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. clothesline: Rhymezone
  17. Clothesline: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. clothesline: FreeDictionary.org
  19. clothesline: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. clothesline: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. clothesline: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. clothesline: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. clothesline: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A rope or cord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry.
noun:  A structure with multiple cords for the same purpose, such as a Hills hoist.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (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.

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