Definitions for safety-pin

safety-pin safe·ty-pin

Spelling: [seyf-tee-pin]
IPA: /ˈseɪf tiˌpɪn/

Safety-Pin is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 531 anagrams from letters in safety-pin (-aefinpsty).

Definitions for safety-pin

noun

  1. a pin bent back on itself to form a spring, with a guard to cover the point.

verb (used with object)

  1. to secure or affix with a safety pin:

Origin of safety-pin

First recorded in 1915-20

Examples for safety-pin

Maybe he would be wearing an old coat pinned with a safety-pin.

I trust her feeling ill may not be from that unlucky prick of the safety-pin.

The safety-pin is an object which may well occupy our attention for a moment.

Of the brooch and its connection with the safety-pin we have already spoken.

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

He fastens his collar with a safety-pin, humming an old song the while.

The cord is tied to the safety-pin, and the jerk releases the pin.

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

Or, if it didn't, where was that safety-pin that was on her dressing-table yesterday?

I was sorry to notice that my clumsiness with the safety-pin hurt her.

Word Value for safety-pin
Scrable

12

Words with friends

11

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