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barn door
noun- the fly on a pair of trousers US, 1950
Used in the euphemistic warning: “Your barn door is open”. - — Don R. McCreary (Editor), Dawg Speak, 2001
- “Your barn door is open,” I said, remembering Uncle Peter’s sense of humor. — V.C. Andrews, Falling Stars, p. 145, 2001
- any target that is too large to miss UK, 1679
- [S]everal thousand Japanese peasants who couldn’t hit a barn door at three paces. — The Times, 8 January 2004
- an extremely large halibut CANADA
Alaskan and Canadian usage. - The name came from the East Coast term for the huge barndoor skate, raja laevis. — Tom Parkin, WetCoast Words, p. 13, 1989
- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 5, 1997
- in stage lighting, and the television and film industries, blinders used to focus a studio lamp US
Conventionally known as a “variable mask”. - — Oswald Skilbeck, ABC of Film and TV Working Terms, p. 16, 1960
- a type of fuel injection system US
- — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 17, 1965
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