Word.ws English Dictionary

hair pin

hair pin is the alternative form of hairpin.

Meaning of hairpin

Noun

hairpin (plural hairpins)

  1. A pin or fastener for the hair.
  2. A kind of ribozyme; hairpin ribozyme.
  3. (attributive) A very tight bend in a road; a hairpin bend.
    • The variety of angles in the course, from slow bends to hairpins, will both test your skill as a driver and allow you the opportunity to pass other carts.2009, Bob Sehlinger, Grant Rafter, Beyond Disney, page 280
  4. An elongated horizontal v-shaped sign placed underneath a staff to indicate a crescendo or decrescendo.

Forms of hair pin

pluralhair pins

Questions about hair pin

What is hair pin the alternative form of?
Hair pin is the alternative form of hairpin.

Words near hair pin in the dictionary

  1. hair out of place
  2. hair pencil
  3. hair pencils
  4. hair pie
  5. hair pies
  6. hair pin
  7. hair pins
  8. hair pipe
  9. hair pipes
  10. hair plate
  11. hair plates

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hair pin (page history and authors); hairpin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hair pin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hair_pin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.