bobby pin
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bobby pin
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From bob haircut, which the bobby pin was designed to keep under control.
noun bobby pins · bobbypin
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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.
Similar: hairgrip, kirby grip
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