Hairgrip

What the Americans call a bobby pin, the British call a hairgrip.

She lost her hairgrip and used a rubber band.

My hairgrip is too heavy. It keeps slipping out of my hair.

Eve had chewed the cushion tip from her hairgrip and had begun bending back one end of the stiff piece of metal.

Then she leant over towards the bedside table, selected a hairgrip from amongst the crusted trio littered beside her hairbrush, and tenderly inserted the looped end into her right ear, turning it delicately to dredge for wax.

“The hairgrip was in this envelope", Ulrika Stenholm said, passing him another small plastic bag containing a white envelope.