Crossword-Solution: HAIRPIN 7 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Hairpin n. A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the
hair in place, -- used by women.

We have 36 clues for the answer “HAIRPIN”

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U-shaped bend 1 answer
Predecessor of the bobbypin. 1 answer
Sharp turn on a road 1 answer
Sharp, as a turn 1 answer
Support for an updo 1 answer
Tight turn 1 answer
Tress holder. 1 answer
Turn type 1 answer
U-shaped 1 answer
Lock clip 1 answer
U-shaped wire used to hold the hair in place 1 answer
U-shaped, more or less 1 answer
Very sharp turn 1 answer
Very sharp, as a turn 1 answer
Very tight, as a turn 1 answer
What gets stuck in locks? 1 answer
hatpin 1 answer
Use it to secure locks? 1 answer
Like some turns 1 answer
It's sometimes invisible. 1 answer
Headdress holder 1 answer
Designating a sharp turn. 1 answer
Chignon affixer 1 answer
BOBBY pin 1 answer
A mountain highway bend 1 answer
180 degree bend at the Vancouver Indy 1 answer
part0261ROAD bend 2 answers
Switchback 3 answers
Kind of turn 3 answers
Extremely sharp 4 answers
Sharp bend 6 answers
Kind of Curve 6 answers
CHIGNON 7 answers
Sharp turn 8 answers
A DOUBLE PRONGED PIN USED TO HOLD WOMEN'S HAIR IN PLACE 11 answers
BUN HOLDER 13 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with HAIRPIN (5)

How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1994
How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling-tongs.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 2008
Presently, she gracefully and uselessly smoothed her hair from the left temple with the backs of her fingers, of course finishing the gesture prettily by tucking in a hairpin tighter above the nape of her neck.
The Flirt Booth Tarkington 2004
Hook the money out with a hairpin, Minnie, and buy some shredded wheat in remembrance of me." He opened the door and a blast of February wind rattled the window-frames.
Where There's A Will Mary Roberts Rinehart 2006
Tillie's thin hair was wadded back into a moist knob at the back and skewered with a gray-black hairpin.
Buttered Side Down Edna Ferber 2008

Quotes with HAIRPIN (3)

He took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a couple of birds had been nesting there); he took a strand of it and wound it around his finger. With his other hand he began stroking my face, and then he bent down and kissed me again, this time very cautiously. I closed my eyes - and the same thing happened as before: my brain suffered that delicious break in transmission.
Kerstin Gier Ruby Red
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.
Virginia Woolf The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Six, 1936-1941
All the colours in the rainbow don't compare, With one look in your impossible eyes, And I walked into the trap with my eyes wide shut, But I never knew what it would be like. All the plans were made, In the wooded glade, Where your body was split wide open, And I count to ten, As the race begins, Round your hairpin bends. Sometimes I feel I'll float away, Sometimes I feel I'll float away, Sometimes I feel I'll float away, Without you to hold me. I can't count the times I for…
Suede The Suede -- The Chord Songbook: Lyric Songbook, Octavo-Size Book
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 27 times in crossword archives (1950–2023).