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bobby pins

bobby pins is the plural of bobby pin.

Meaning of bobby pin

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
    Synonyms:
    hairgrip, kirby grip

Questions about bobby pins

What is bobby pins the plural of?
Bobby pins is the plural of bobby pin.

Words near bobby pins in the dictionary

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

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