pipe cleaner

noun

a short length of twisted flexible wires covered with tufted fabric, used to clean the stem of a smoker's pipe and for various handicrafts.

pipe cleaner

a short length of thin wires twisted so as to hold tiny tufts of yarn: used to clean the stem of a tobacco pipe

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First recorded in 1865–70

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These include any excess pieces of paper, felt, pipe cleaner and used pieces of cardboard.

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Using borax, water, and pipe cleaners, we made our own crystals.

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About two years after arriving in the park, P-22 appeared on trail-camera footage looking gaunt, his tail as thin as a pipe cleaner.

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The big cat showed up on trail-camera footage looking gaunt, his tail as thin as a pipe cleaner.

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For the leaf mitts, she cut out green felt and hot-glued on green pipe cleaners.

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