Meaning of Clout | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
   countable, informal, uncountable
2. A blow with the hand.
   countable, uncountable
3. A home run.
   countable, informal, uncountable
4. The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
   countable, uncountable
5. A swaddling cloth.
   countable, dated, regional, uncountable
6. A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
7. An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
8. A clout nail.
   countable, uncountable
9. A piece; a fragment.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Having relinquished his clout in City Council to run⟳ for a place⟳ on the county board⟳, and having lost stature by reason⟳ of his failure to win⟳ the presidency, Duffy was in no position to seek⟳ the party chairmanship for himself”

“[…]ethics officers themselves often complain⟳ that they can recommend⟳ but have⟳ little clout with which to create⟳ real change⟳.”

“The chopped mushrooms add⟳ depth to both the Waitrose and the Go-Go Vegan recipe, but what gives the latter some real clout on the flavour front is a teaspoon of Marmite.”

“It's funny how they judge⟳ you when they see⟳ you made a change⟳ / I poured another four just to take⟳ away the pain / My friends weren't my friends, they was ^([sic]) looking for some clout / I had what they wanted so they always came around”

“Rowan, like⟳ most teenagers on the internet, wasn’t after fame or money, though he made a decent amount — at one point⟳ $10,000 a month and more, he said. What Rowan wanted was clout. On the internet, clout is a social currency that can be used to obtain⟳ just about anything. Rack up enough while you’re young, and doors everywhere begin⟳ to open⟳.”

“I'm that girl all alone in the crowd / 'Cause all of you's are followers and do it for the clout”

“‘Such a clout on the ear as you gave me… But I soon taught you.’”

“One of her goons gave him a clout on the ear.”

“'... allowed Boston to score⟳ all of its runs on homers, including a pair of clouts by Jacoby Ellsbury ...'”

“For kings are clouts that euery man ſhoots at, Our Crowne the pin that thouſands ſeeke to cleaue.”

“A’ must shoot⟳ nearer or he’ll ne’er hit the clout.”

“When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg’s ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see⟳ something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two.”

“His garment nought but many ragged clouts, / With thornes together pind and patched was, / The which his naked sides he wrapt abouts;”

“If I were mad, I ſhould forget⟳ my ſonne, / or madly thinke a babe of clowts were he; I am not mad: too well, too well I feele / The different plague of each clamitie.”

“[…] a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood […]”

“We condol’d with each other, and observ’d how wretchedly we look’d, all naked, except a small Clout about our Middles […]”

“The Byzantines, wrote Robert of Clari, hooted and jeered from the battlements, "and let⟳ down their clouts and showed them their backsides."”

“Clouts were thin and flat pieces of iron⟳, used it appears to strengthen the box of the wheel; perhaps also for nailing on such other parts of the cart as were particularly exposed to wear⟳.”

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