picket
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈpɪkɪt/
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- The children played outside, laughing near the white picket fence that enclosed their backyard.
- a picket fence
- white picket fence
You walk to school, white picket fences, green grass.
- You walk to school, white picket fences, green grass.
- We admire what we call the white picket fence.
- You know, it's not the white picket fence in fairy tales, marriage and relationships.
- Most people want what has been pitched to us, which is the big house, the picket fence.
- But we drive up and down the streets in America and you look at every house and it's got a little picket fence out front and it's got grass and car in the driveway.
- If you ask people what is the American dream, the answer is inextricably tied up with a single family home with a white picket fence.
- I, this became, you know, the guy who was the white picket fence man, right?
- That allows your sunglasses to block with a filter like a picket fence that only allows One Direction of light to come through.
- It is all chips in on this whole domestic white picket fence life.
Examples
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Gonna get us a nice little place with a white picket fence.
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Sandy lanes wound under the heavy shade of live oaks, past summer cottages with picket fences and pleasantly unkempt yards.
Fiction book (1999) -
So if you want to have a white picket fence with six kids, then you better both want that.
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You guys got your big houses, white picket fence.
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Behind that white, perfect picket fence?
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The next house is gonna have a white picket fence?
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The same white picket fence with roses in front of it.
Fiction book (1997) -
"But white is the proper color for a picket fence," said Gordon.
Fiction book (1999) -
It was enough to buy my wife a proper house... with a white picket fence.
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I see a weathered old farmhouse with a white picket fence.
Synonyms
22
8.0
A thin wooden piece set upright to make a fence
1
2.0
A strong post standing in the ground to hold a fence
Compounds
27
4.2
A line of workers outside a workplace during a strike who stand to protest and stop others entering
23
2.0
A row of upright wooden or metal boards with spaces that mark the edge of a yard
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Etymology
The fence meaning of picket comes from the old French piquet, a 'small pointed stake' used in the ground, like the wooden points you see in a garden. That's why a row of these small stakes is called a picket fence.