blow-dry

present singular third person blow-dries · participle present blow-drying · participle past blow-dried · past blow-dried · alternative blow dry · alternative blowdry

1. ambitransitiveTo dry with a hair dryer.

   Use a couple of large Velcro rollers at the crown while you blow-dry to add volume, said Patrick Melville, an owner of the Warren-Tricomi salon in New York.

   2005 May 26, Sally Wadyka, “Rapunzels of a Certain Age”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015

plural blow-dries · plural blow-drys · alternative blow dry · alternative blowdry

1. An instance of blow-drying.

   She went to the hairdresser's for a haircut, shampooing and a blow-dry.

   1 more example

   After we had our hair cut, we had to wait a few minutes for blow-drys.

   2014, Sheila Agnew, chapter 14, in Evie Brooks in Central Park Showdown, Dublin: The O’Brien Press, →ISBN, page 93

2. A blow-dried hairdo.

   She rests her blow-dry against his belly as Ollie stands there helplessly.

   2012, Polly Williams, The Angel at No. 33, London: Headline Review, →ISBN, page 151

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   A lot of hairdressers don’t consider what the client looks like. There’s no point doing something big and fabulous like a huge blow-dry if she hasn’t even got a hairdryer at home; she can never recreate it.

   2011 June, Olivia Wakefield, quoting Ian Carmichael, “Cut Above the Rest”, in Lorraine Crighton-Smith, editor, SW, number 264, London: Archant Life, →OCLC, “London Lifestyle Awards 2011” supplement

   Within minutes they had annexed a couple suits, and were soon halfway down a bottle of champagne, laughing and tossing their blow-dries and generally acting like they were absolutely thrilled to be in precisely that stuffy bar with its lame DJ and lamer floating candles in ice troughs, with precisely those fascinatingly witty men, while their luckier colleagues were doing bad Russian coke on the Riviera.

   2016, L. S. Hilton [pseudonym; Lisa Hilton], chapter 19, in Maestra, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 197