What the Americans call a bobby pin, the British call a hairgrip.
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Hairgrip
Synonyms for "hairgrip" (6 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Strong matches (1)
Related words (3)
Noun(1 words)
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Translations
13 translations across 11 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مِشْبَك اَلشَّعْر noun (flat hairpin with two prongs)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 髮卡 /发卡 noun (flat hairpin with two prongs)
Czech
2 entries- pinetka noun (flat hairpin with two prongs)
- vlásenka noun (flat hairpin with two prongs)
Finnish
1 entries- hiuspinni noun (flat hairpin with two prongs)
German
1 entries- Haarklammer noun (flat hairpin with two prongs)
Greek
1 entries- φουρκέτα noun (flat hairpin with two prongs)
Italian
1 entries- molletta noun (flat hairpin with two prongs)
Polish
1 entries- wsuwka noun (flat hairpin with two prongs)
Russian
2 entries- зако́лка noun (flat hairpin with two prongs)
- невиди́мка noun (flat hairpin with two prongs)
Swedish
1 entries- hårnål noun (flat hairpin with two prongs)
Turkish
1 entries- tel toka noun (flat hairpin with two prongs)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
She lost her hairgrip and used a rubber band.
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My hairgrip is too heavy. It keeps slipping out of my hair.
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Eve had chewed the cushion tip from her hairgrip and had begun bending back one end of the stiff piece of metal.
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