Crossword-Solution: HAIRPINS 8 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

We have 12 clues for the answer “HAIRPINS”

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Coiffeur's gear 1 answer
Parts of some buns 1 answer
Sharp road bends 1 answer
They can be used as lock picks in a pinch (that's not a pun, they really can) 1 answer
They hold coifs in place 1 answer
They're invisible. 1 answer
Tress holders 1 answer
Very sharp turns 1 answer
Bun holders 2 answers
Some sharp turns 2 answers
Beauty parlor items. 3 answers
Sharp turns 3 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
MAECZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HAIRPINS (5)

Ray had lived long enough among the Mexicans to dislike fussiness, to feel that there was something more attractive in ease of manner than in absentminded concern about hairpins and dabs of lace.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Roger hummed a tune as he picked up the hairpins on the bedroom floor, and wondered to himself why women are always supposed to be more tidy than men.
The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008
Manville Smith (nee Finnegan) scorned the Winnebago shops, and was said to send to Chicago for her hairpins.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 2008
Why, say, Gabie, if I was to tell you what I spend in face powder and toilette water and hairpins alone, you'd think I'd made a mistake and given you the butcher bill instead.
Buttered Side Down Edna Ferber 2008
There was the woman who's always hungry, nibbling chocolates out of a box; and the woman fallen asleep, with her hat on the side, and hairpins dropping out of her hair; and the woman who's beside herself with fear that she'll miss her train; and the woman who is taking notes about the other women's rigs.
In the Bishop's Carriage Miriam Michelson 1996

Quotes with HAIRPINS (3)

But when oxidation nibbles more slowly - more delicately, like a tortoise - at the world around us, without a flame, we call it rust and we sometimes scarcely notice as it goes about its business consuming everything from hairpins to whole civilizations.
Alan Bradley A Red Herring Without Mustard
These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a lady’s things — hairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he wanted to know the dark secrets of this cell.
Gwenn Wright Katherine's Journal
For the hair, a few French hairpins and a tortoiseshell clip will dress up any bun!
Mary Helen Bowers
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 10 times in crossword archives (1952–2013).