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bobbypin

bobbypin is the alternative form 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

Forms of bobbypin

pluralbobbypins

Questions about bobbypin

What is bobbypin the alternative form of?
Bobbypin is the alternative form of bobby pin.

Words near bobbypin in the dictionary

  1. bobby-soxed
  2. bobby-soxer
  3. bobby-soxers
  4. bobbydazzler
  5. bobbydazzlers
  6. bobbypin
  7. bobbypins
  8. bobbysock
  9. bobbysocks
  10. bobbysox
  11. bobbysoxer

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