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pin back your ears
(also pin your ears back) UK informalDefinition
(Definition of pin back your ears from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- attend verb (NOTICE)
- audio- prefix
- auditory adjective
- aural adjective
- ears are flapping idiom
- earshot noun
- eavesdrop verb
- hark at sb! idiom
- hear sb out phrasal verb
- hear verb (LISTEN)
- hear verb (RECEIVE SOUND)
- hearer noun
- hearken verb
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- listen verb
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- overhear verb
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