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Clogs

A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

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📖 Definitions of "Clogs"

noun

1
A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
"Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days."
2
A blockage.
"The plumber cleared the clog from the drain."
3
A shoe of any type.
4
A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.

verb

1
To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
"Hair is clogging the drainpipe."
2
To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
3
To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
4
To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Clogs"

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Word	Definition
pattennoun	Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs.
sabotnoun	A wooden shoe.
getanoun	A Japanese raised wooden clog, worn with traditional Japanese garments such as the kimono.
congestverb	(transitive) To hinder or block the passage of something moving, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.
clotnoun	A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
chokeverb	(intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
choke offverb	(idiomatic, transitive) To stop (someone or something) in the execution of a purpose or task; to stop (someone) from doing something.
clog upverb	(transitive, idiomatic) To block something completely and physically.
back upverb	(idiomatic, computing, transitive) To copy (data) so that it can be restored if the main copy is lost.
overloadnoun	(transitive) To load excessively.
foulnoun	(sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
clog dancenoun	Any dance performed while wearing clogs, producing a percussive sound.
clog dancing	a form of step dance characterised by the wearing of inflexible, wooden soled clogs.
hoofsnoun	The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.
hooves	a 2024 short film written and directed by Akash Sunethkumara.
impedesverb	(transitive) To get in the way of; to hinder.
princesnoun	The (male) ruler or head of a principality.
sandalsnoun	(footwear) A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot
shoesnoun	"Shoes" is a song recorded by Canadian country pop singer Shania Twain.
drainsnoun	(chiefly US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)