hairgrip

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English

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A plain hairgrip

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Etymology

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From hair +‎ grip.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hairgrip (plural hairgrips)

  1. A flat hairpin having two prongs that hold bobbed hair together.
    • 1981, Gillian Allnutt, Spitting the Pips Out, page 51:
      Eve had chewed the cushion tip from her hairgrip and had begun bending back one end of the stiff piece of metal.
    • 1985, Patricia Ferguson, Family myths and legends, page 8:
      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.
    • 2016, Leif G. W. Persson, The Dying Detective, page 111:
      “The hairgrip was in this envelope", Ulrika Stenholm said, passing him another small plastic bag containing a white envelope.

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