Meaning

5 senses
  1. The large door of a barn.

    Scheunentor

    the large sliding door of a barn

  2. (humorous)Something large enough that a miss ought to be impossible.

    Buying a barn door won't help your tennis game.

  3. A player who blocks every ball.

  4. (euphemistic, humorous)The groin area of a pair of pants, especially in reference to a fly.

    Somebody forgot to close his barn door again!

  5. An off-balance pivot on two points of contact.

Examples

19 sentences
  1. Tom put a padlock on the barn door.

  2. Tom put a padlock on his barn door.

  3. It's too late to shut the barn door after the horse is gone.

  4. It's too late to shut the barn door after the horse is out.

  5. It's too late to shut the barn door after the horse has escaped.

Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
door of a barn:

Origin

From barn + door.

From barn + door.

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Forms

plural: barn doors

Word family

1 related words
Relatedbarn doors

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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