blow-dried
blow-dried is the simple past and past participle of blow-dry.
Meaning of blow-dry
Verb
blow-dry (third-person singular simple present blow-dries, present participle blow-drying, simple past and past participle blow-dried)
- To dry with a hair dryer.
- Use a couple of large Velcro rollers at the crown while you blow-dry to add volume, said Patrick Melville, an owner of the Warren-Tricomi salon in New York.2005 May 26, Sally Wadyka, “Rapunzels of a Certain Age”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015
Adjective
blow-dried (not comparable)
- Looking well-groomed, but superficial or vacuous.
- Just then, a middle-aged, blow-dried villain—the usual opera-star face, woozy with loot and mother-love—urged a neon redhead past our table, our good table, to which Fielding had been instantly and officiously steered.1984, Martin Amis, chapter 3, in Money: A Suicide Note, Jonathan Cape
Questions about blow-dried
- What does blow-dried mean?
- Blow-dried means looking well-groomed, but superficial or vacuous.
- What is blow-dried the simple past and past participle of?
- Blow-dried is the simple past and past participle of blow-dry.
- What part of speech is blow-dried?
- Blow-dried is an adjective.
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