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safety pin

a pin bent back on itself so as to form a spring, and having the point covered and held with a guard

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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