Blow-dry

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An instance of blow-drying.

    "She went to the hairdresser's for a haircut, shampooing and a blow-dry."

  2. 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."

Verb
  1. 1
    To dry with a hair dryer.
  2. 2
    dry hair with a hair dryer wordnet

Example

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"How long do you blow-dry your hair?"

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blow-dryer

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