hair-grip

English

Noun

hair-grip (plural hair-grips)

1. Alternative form of hairgrip
   • 2001, Bernadine Crosby, Soweto Now?:

     By the time you reached 'third' year the hole reappeared, now one through which a hair-grip could slide, enabling the beret to be balanced on the back of your head—a trendy statement!

   • 2001, Artin Göncü, Elisa Klein, Children in Play, Story, and School, page 112:

     By presenting herself as frightened by the dangerous creature animated by the children, the caregiver legitimates the symbolic transformations proposed by Mattia and riccardo (the hair-grip as a crocodile or a shark) and remarks the nonliteral use of objects.

   • 2012, John Carey, William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies, page 1:

     The hair-grip goes some way towards satisfying his deep desire to be one of them. The little boy who saw the white cockerel, and the little boy wearing Lily's hair-grip, both remained part of William Golding.