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

First recorded in 1865–70

He took out his knife, opened the pipe cleaner, and pressed the narrow blade into the aperture.

The back of a broken horn comb is a favorite material for making a decorated pipe-cleaner (Fig. 304 124).

The left-hand upper waistcoat pocket holds a pencil, a commutation ticket and a pipe cleaner.

The first pipe-cleaner man was shinnying up the power cable.

A pipe-cleaner man happened upon a shard after a moment and hugged it to his chest, then toddled back into the box with it.

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