Wiktionary
alt. An electric device for drying hair; a blow-dryer. n. An electric device for drying hair; a blow-dryer.
WordNet
n. a hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair; used for styling hair [syn: hand blower, blow dryer, blow drier, hair drier]
Wikipedia
A blow dryer or hair dryer is an electromechanical device designed to blow normal or hot air over damp hair, in order to accelerate the evaporation of water particles and dry the hair. Blow dryers allow better control over the shape and style of hair, by accelerating and controlling the formation of temporary hydrogen bonds inside each strand. These hydrogen bonds are very powerful (allowing for stronger hair shaping than even the sulfur bonds formed by permanent waving products), but are temporary and extremely vulnerable to humidity. They disappear with a single washing of the hair.
Hairstyles using blow dryers usually have volume and discipline, which can be further improved by the use of styling products and hairbrushes during drying to add tension, hold and lift.
Blow dryers were invented around the end of the 19th century. The first model was created by Alexander F. "Beau" Godefroy in his salon in France in 1890. The handheld, household hair dryer first appeared in 1920. Blow dryers are used both in beauty salons by professional stylists, and in the average household by consumers.
Usage examples of "hair dryer".
When his son and daughter enter the bathroom he asks them about the noise, but through the steam he sees his daughter plugging the hair dryer into its socket.
Zofia put down the hair dryer as though it had just burned her hand.
He didn't have to swagger when he wore a pistol as big as a hair dryer on his belt.
When Cheryl came upstairs Karen was in her room, hair dryer in hand.
I drove back to my apartment, threw some clothes in a laundry basket, added makeup, hair gel, and hair dryer, and dragged the basket out to the car.
Her hands above her, her right holding the hair dryer and her left buried in her hair.