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bobby pin

bobby pin noun: a type of double-pronged hairpin.

bobby pin: a type of double-pronged hairpin
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Noun

bobby pin (plural bobby pins)

  1. (US) A type of double-pronged hairpin.
    • [H]e still didn't like looking down the drain. The brass cross-hatch inside that was supposed to catch things like clots of hair or dropped bobby-pins had disappeared years ago, and so there was only a dark hole rimmed by a circle of tarnished steel.1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger
    • Her pinned-up hairdo was drooping and she shed two bobby pins on the floor.2014, Janet Cantrell, chapter 7, in Fat Cat at Large, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 58
    Synonyms:
    hairgrip, kirby grip

Synonyms of bobby pin

Forms of bobby pin

pluralbobby pins
alternative formbobbypin

Origin of bobby pin

From bob haircut, which the bobby pin was designed to keep under control.

Questions about bobby pin

What does bobby pin mean?
Bobby pin means a type of double-pronged hairpin.
What part of speech is bobby pin?
Bobby pin is a noun.
What is the plural of bobby pin?
The plural of bobby pin is bobby pins.

Words near bobby pin in the dictionary

  1. bobby bean
  2. bobby beans
  3. bobby dazzler
  4. bobby dazzlers
  5. Bobby Joe
  6. bobby pin
  7. bobby pins
  8. bobby sock
  9. bobby socks
  10. bobby sox
  11. bobby soxer

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