paperclip
- noun
- B2
- Top 10000
A small piece of bent wire that you push over sheets of paper to hold them together.
A paperclip fell out of the envelope when I opened it.
He bent a paperclip out of shape while listening to the call.
There is a small box of coloured paperclips beside the phone.
Use a paperclip if you want to remove the pages later.
Common collocations: a box of paperclips · a metal paperclip · hold pages together with a paperclip · bend a paperclip · coloured paperclips
Part of: The office, Writing