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How to pronounce “clout”
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Pronunciation guide for clout
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of clout with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predicts Iran's future 20 minutes
And how much clout could they bring to bear
- Definition summary
- (informal) Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce clout
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predicts Iran's future 20 minutes
And how much clout could they bring to bear
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “clout”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (informal) Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
- A blow with the hand.
- (baseball, informal) A home run.
- (archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
- (regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
- (archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
- (archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
- A clout nail.
- (obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
- [Verb]
- To hit (someone or something), especially with the fist.
- To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
- To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
- To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
- To join or patch clumsily.
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