NOUN
- a pin in the form of a clasp; has a guard so the point of the pin will not stick the user
How To Use safety pin In A Sentence
- A change of colours is against the Tour's rules, and they were forced to stop, replace the jerseys with their regular red shirts, and reaffix their race numbers, held on with safety pins, before being allowed to continue on their way to collect the team prize. Tour de France 2010: Protocol observed for Alberto Contador's coronation
- But before you use one of those pointless safety pins to attach your resignation letter to your boss's forehead, there are other options. Times, Sunday Times
- I take the word of V & A curator Claire Wilcox that the safety pin dress is superbly tailored, but up close it looks even tackier than I had imagined, ditto the blue satin number studded with diamanté, once worn by Diana, Princess of Wales.
- But for the safety pin fastened to his left eyebrow, he looked like a neo-Nazi skinhead. Excerpt: The Fractal Murders by Mark Cohen
- Chartreuse hair, black fingernails, and safety pins in unlikely places. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
- This brassard also still retains its original safety pin for securing the brassard to the sleeve of the medic's uniform.
- Heating an implement made of a straightened safety pin, he speared the bugs, then brought them to the candle flame.
- The teen used a safety pin to help him escape.
- Heating an implement made of a straightened safety pin, he speared the bugs, then brought them to the candle flame.
- A safety pin has a cover over its point.