hairpin









hairpin


noun

  1. a slender U-shaped piece of wire, shell, etc., used by women to fasten up the hair or hold a headdress.

adjective

  1. (of a road, curve in a road, etc.) sharply curved back, as in a U shape: a hairpin turn.

noun

  1. a thin double-pronged pin used by women to fasten the hair
  2. (modifier) (esp of a bend in a road) curving very sharply
n.

also hair-pin, 1788 (two words), from hair + pin (n.). A hairpin turn, etc., is from 1906. Hairpin (or clothespin) was American English slang for “person” c.1880-1910, especially in the expression “That’s the kind of hairpin I am.”

48 queries 0.398