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blow-dry

blow-dry verb: to dry with a hair dryer.

Verb

blow-dry (third-person singular simple present blow-dries, present participle blow-drying, simple past and past participle blow-dried)

  1. (ambitransitive) 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

Noun

blow-dry (plural blow-dries or blow-drys)

  1. An instance of blow-drying.
    • She went to the hairdresser's for a haircut, shampooing and a blow-dry.
    • After we had our hair cut, we had to wait a few minutes for blow-drys.2014, Sheila Agnew, chapter 14, in Evie Brooks in Central Park Showdown, Dublin: The O’Brien Press, →ISBN, page 93
  2. A blow-dried hairdo.
    • A lot of hairdressers don’t consider what the client looks like. There’s no point doing something big and fabulous like a huge blow-dry if she hasn’t even got a hairdryer at home; she can never recreate it.2011 June, Olivia Wakefield, quoting Ian Carmichael, “Cut Above the Rest”, in Lorraine Crighton-Smith, editor, SW, number 264, London: Archant Life, →OCLC, “London Lifestyle Awards 2011” supplement
    • She rests her blow-dry against his belly as Ollie stands there helplessly.2012, Polly Williams, The Angel at No. 33, London: Headline Review, →ISBN, page 151

Forms of blow-dry

Verb
third-person singular presentblow-dries
present participleblow-drying
past participleblow-dried
pastblow-dried
alternative formblow dry
alternative formblowdry
Noun
pluralblow-dries
pluralblow-drys

Words formed from blow-dry

Questions about blow-dry

What does blow-dry mean?
Blow-dry means to dry with a hair dryer.
What part of speech is blow-dry?
Blow-dry can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of blow-dry?
The past tense of blow-dry is blow-dried.

Words near blow-dry in the dictionary

  1. blow-bys
  2. blow-dried
  3. blow-drier
  4. blow-driers
  5. blow-dries
  6. blow-dry
  7. blow-dryer
  8. blow-dryers
  9. blow-drying
  10. blow-drys
  11. blow-flies

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