bobbypin

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A form of bobby pin — A type of double-pronged hairpin.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounbobbypin (plural bobbypins)

plural bobbypins

  1. alternativeAlternative form of bobby pin.

    Ida turned swiftly with mouth full of golden bobbypins.

    2012, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women
    2 more examples

    "You look like a tramp," Quinn said, and starting forward suddenly, so that she cried out, he gave a flip at her hair and the bobbypin fell out.

    1941, Whit Burnett, Martha Foley, Story - Volumes 19-21, page 90

    She held it up to the light — a standard wire bobbypin of a dark shade, the sort that is manufactured for brunettes.

    2015, Niven Busch, California Street, page 386
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Chicago

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