Thesaurus results for CARLINE

carline

noun

ˈkär-lən

variants or carlin

Definition of carline next

chiefly Scottish

as in hag

a mean or ugly old woman there's no appeasing the auld carline who lives at the far end of the loch

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Recent Examples of carline Out of the roughly 500 carlines listed in the 2025 NHTSA dataset, each had at minimum 20% of their components imported from outside the U.S. and Canada. Need a break? —

Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025

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Noun

There’s an undercurrent of anxiety under all of it, outside of the sea hag.

— Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026
The island village is beset by sea hags, serial killers, creepy clowns and other evils that interfere with Tom’s dream of turning Widow’s Bay into a Martha’s Vineyard-like tourist destination.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 17 June 2026

Definition of hag

Noun

Produced by Diablo Cody, Forbidden Fruits stars Lili Reinhart as Apple, the leader of a cult of witches in a Texas shopping mall.

— Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 26 June 2026
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— Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2026