bobby pin
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2.2
- noun
- /ˈbɑbi pɪn/
- US
:
horquilla
- She used a bobby pin to secure her hair in place during the wedding.
- secured with bobby pins
- bobby pins and hair
- bobby pins hold
And I definitely need more than one Bobby pin to pin this down, and that's OK.
- And I definitely need more than one Bobby pin to pin this down, and that's OK.
- I have an eyebrow or mustache razor pair, tweezers, and a Bobby pin and nail file.
- And if you guys have hair and Bobby pins, you'll know that they always go missing.
- It's like an opened hair clip or like Bobby pin thing and I use that to part my hair.
- I recommend using a cloth and a Bobby pin.
- Last but not the least, I have a Bobby pin.
- So you can't see the tracks, the Bobby pins or the ponytail holder and you're just going to Bobby pin that little piece of hair down.
- And then you don't see the horrible hair band and just take a little grip or Bobby pin and just pin that into place.
- So I'm going to switch it up and instead of cat ears, I'm going to use little Bobby pins to hold back my hair.
- So it will also help her know what kind of, you know, hair gel to bring, what kind of Bobby pins to bring or whatever.
- So we made it look yeah, it's a little bit of Bobby pins.
Examples
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Some of her hair came loose, scattering bobby pins and streaming over her face.
Fiction book (1999) -
Often her hair was done up in bobby pins with a scarf wound around her.
Academic text (2007) -
There goes the last bobby pin.
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- Do you have a bobby pin?
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Is that a bobby pin?
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This is your bobby pin.
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Do you have a bobby pin?
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Can I have another bobby pin, please, Hal?
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Finally, secure the crown around your head using bobby pins and voila!
Blog text (15) -
Her hair was pushed back carelessly, trapped by a bobby pin.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
15
1.6
A small metal or plastic pin with two thin parts that holds hair in place
12
7.5
A small clip that holds hair in place
2
8.7
A small metal hairpin that holds hair in place
A small metal clip that holds hair in place
A small decorative clip that holds hair in place
A clip with teeth and a spring that holds hair in place
A clip with two comb-like sides and a spring that holds hair in place
A small metal piece that holds curled hair while styling
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
bobby + pin
The head 'pin' clearly signals a small fastening device, so a learner who knows the constituents can infer this is a kind of pin, but 'bobby' is etymologically opaque (a name or dialectal modifier) and does not transparently indicate the hair-related function. Because the object class is predictable but the specific sense 'hairpin' is not derivable from the parts, the expression is only partially transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Bobby pin comes from the short bob hairstyle and the small pin used to hold it. One popular story says that in the 1920s people called the small metal pin a 'bobby pin' because it kept the 'bob' in place, so today the term means a small pin for holding hair.