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hairpin
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A hairpin is a device used to hold a person's hair in place. Hairpin or Hairpins may also refer to: Hairpin turn , a tight turn on a road Hairpin cotter , a formed wire fastener most commonly used in clevis pins Hairpin clip , a formed wire fastener designed ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also hair-pin , 1788 (two words), from hair + pin (n.). A hairpin turn, etc., is from 1906. Hairpin (or clothespin ) was American English slang for "person" c.1880-1910, especially in the expression "That's the kind of hairpin I am."
Usage examples of hairpin.
If it feels a ring, an ear bob, something in the cunny, even so much as a single hairpin, it refuses to let you pass the door.
Tess, who still wore her old black pelisse, and who had in her encounter with Nidget lost all her hairpins so that her pale curls were as usual in wild disarray, certainly lacked the least appearance of a gentlewoman.
The road snaked upward in hairpin bends as far as the Ermita de las Nieves before sloping down to the coast.
She refastened a few hairpins, then found her burgundy shawl and draped it over her shoulders.
Baroness, attempting to upsweep her hair and hold it with the hairpins in her mouth.
Teague stepped forward to speak to the Yss who had pulled the hairpin from her hair.
From its sharp hairpins you can see the Mediterranean on a fine day, or at least the shiny new autoroute that swings inland at Cannes and goes past Aix and Avignon.
Vesuvius, left the expressway at Castellammare, and piloted the car around the mountainous hairpins of the Sorrento peninsula.
Rhoda took their battered hats, led the women upstairs for hairpins, and presently fed them all with tea-cakes, poached eggs, anchovy toast, and drinks from a coromandel-wood liqueur case which Midmore had never known that he possessed.
She rushes back upstairs and dresses faster than she ever has before--donning pantalettes, camisole, dress, coatee, stockings, garters, shoes, gloves and bonnet in much the same time that Lady Bridgelow might deliberate over the placement of a single hairpin.
The roads in the Ardennes were as narrow and crooked as the rivers, full of hairpin curves and steep grades.
On 13 April 1945, the Third Battalion, advancing along Highway 9 from Monglo Hill toward Baguio, employed medium tanks against enemy positions in caves along the road, and reached the west slope of Hairpin Hill after an advance of 1500 yards against moderate resistance.
She had hardly taken her eyes from Tish, who had lifted the engine hood and was poking at the carbureter with a hairpin.
Clarice had covered with a lace cloth and with balms and creams, hairpins and swaths of cloth.
When all were naked, without even a hairpin, he carried you and led us through two more gates into a very strange place in Ty Station.