Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "safety-pin".
A demon grabbed a soul sporting a mohawk, kneeless black jeans and a safety-pinned T-shirt, some squirming, hard-luck punk, and tossed him into the fluid press.
Moore did not say except to James at Meet, when Smallest tried to quick-up that Taffy with safety-pin.
Before we could catch our breaths a swarm of black Tannese was alongside and aboard--grinning, apelike creatures, with kinky hair and troubled eyes, wearing safety-pins and clay-pipes in their slitted ears: and as for the rest, wearing nothing behind and less than that before.
These other cases contain more fishhooks, needles and thread, safety-pins, aspirins, water purifying tablets, things like that.
I safety-pinned them together just in case any of your sisters decided to go up on the battlements to look through the telescope.
Walking by, I looked over at this line of forlorn and silent men in pocket-sprung suitcoats, safety-pinned overcoats, some only in shirtsleeves.