Meanings
plural rubberbands
- alternativeAlternative form of rubber band.
Once the hair is sewn onto the foundation, use the proper styling aids to blend all natural hair that is not in rubberbands into the commercial hair, if necessary.
1998, Natural Hair Care and Braiding, →ISBN, page 1142 more examples
Provide each child, or pair of children, with a shoebox (shoebox lid is not needed) and different sizes and thicknesses of rubberbands. The children are to stretch several different sizes of rubberbands around the entire shoebox's girth.
1999, Jennifer Overend Prior, Janet A. Hale, Bats, →ISBN, page 39Braiding with rubberbands is quicker than sewing in yarn or thread but it is not acceptable for high-level competition, and it will break off hairs and damage the mane.
2008, Susan E. Harris, Grooming To Win, →ISBN, page 203
present singular third person rubberbands · participle present rubberbanding · participle past rubberbanded · past rubberbanded
- alternativeuncommonAlternative form of rubber-band.
Rubberband them together.
2001, Braiding: Easy Styles for Everyone, →ISBN, page 712 more examples
Long red-gray hair in a rubberbanded ponytail, […]
2013, Phil Rickman, The Fabric of Sin, →ISBNEditors are very set in their ways of whether they prefer doing level changes within a clip by rubberbanding or by breaking the clip into pieces and adjusting the levels of each piece.
2014, Steve Hullfish, Avid Uncut, →ISBN
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