bobby pin
nounEtymology From bob haircut, which the bobby pin was designed to keep under control.
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US A type of double-pronged hairpin.
- [H]e still didn't like looking down the drain. The brass cross-hatch inside that was supposed to catch things like clots of hair or dropped bobby-pins had disappeared years ago, and so there was only a dark hole rimmed by a circle of tarnished steel.1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:
- Synonyms
- hairgrip, kirby grip