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blow-dry

verb blow-dries · blow-drying · blow-dried · blow dry · blowdry

  1. ambitransitive To 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.

noun blow-dries · blow-drys · blow dry · blowdry

  1. An instance of blow-drying. She went to the hairdresser's for a haircut, shampooing and a blow-dry.
  2. A blow-dried hairdo. 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.

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verb dry with a hair dryer

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Русскийсуши́ть фе́ном sušítʹ fénom, просуши́ть фе́ном prosušítʹ fénom

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@misc{blow_dry_2026,
  title = {blow-dry},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blow-dry},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}