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safety pin

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It’s also helpful to have sewing or safety pins, a straightedge, and a piece of chalk, but you can get by without those items.

I’m that person who has pants with cuffs held up by carefully positioned safety pins.

It was a massive hit, and the safety-pin dress a brilliant cartoonish cherry on top of it.

In another short, the actress had to act like she was eating a doll head with a safety pin through it on a cracker.

You know that he must have been a tormented genius, or one for whom everything clicked as tidily as a safety pin.

About his body hung an old duck jacket, so rotted with rust and mildew as to lend scant anchorage for one brass safety pin.

It was of the safety-pin order, but made of gold and ornamented with small emeralds set as a four-leafed shamrock.

Now to divide for the neck: K 34, and slip these st on to a safety-pin.

Safety-pin employed in the toilet of Edward VI when an infant.

Already in the safety-pin and scarf-pin we have had instances of fastenings which at times are ornamental.

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On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to safety pin, such as: brooch, buckle, catch, clamp, clench, and clinch.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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