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Bobby pin

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A type of double-pronged hairpin. US

    "[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."

  2. 2
    a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place wordnet

Etymology

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

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