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n. (alternative form of tentpole English)
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Tent pole can be
- a pole for a tent
- Tent-pole (entertainment), a production expected to hold up and balance out the financial performance
Usage examples of "tent pole".
I did, before I left the tent, hang the slave beads I had shown the fellow outside over the nail in the tent pole to which Borton had attached his warning sign.
The woman was hanging meat upon a long tent pole, when the pole broke in two and she was obliged to hold the meat up with another pole, just as the young man saw on the mysterious butte.
There was blood on her forehead, probably where she had hit the tent pole.
I can tell you, I was getting bloody tired of explaining about the tent pole and the carpet with the hole cut into it for air.
If you had seen this one wield that tent pole like a man might swing a billiards cue, you would have felt your heart jump.
The tent pole in the boy's upraised hand glowed as bright as a neon sign, Tommy's hair rose from his head and writhed like a nest of snakes, and then the dark form of Gavin merged with boy and the two tumbled off the boulder just as the world exploded in light and noise and a great implosion pressed Baedecker into the ground and submerged his senses in pulses of pure energy.