hairgrip

English

A plain hairgrip

Alternative forms

• hair-grip, hair grip

Etymology

From hair +‎ grip.

Pronunciation

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Noun

hairgrip (plural hairgrips)

1. A flat hairpin having two prongs that hold bobbed hair together.
   • 1981, Gillian Allnutt, Spitting the Pips Out, page 51:

     Eve had chewed the cushion tip from her hairgrip and had begun bending back one end of the stiff piece of metal.

   • 1985, Patricia Ferguson, Family myths and legends, page 8:

     Then she leant over towards the bedside table, selected a hairgrip from amongst the crusted trio littered beside her hairbrush, and tenderly inserted the looped end into her right ear, turning it delicately to dredge for wax.

   • 2016, Leif G. W. Persson, The Dying Detective, page 111:

     “The hairgrip was in this envelope", Ulrika Stenholm said, passing him another small plastic bag containing a white envelope.

Synonyms

• bobby pin
• grip
• kirby grip

Translations

flat hairpin with two prongs

Arabic: مِشْبَك اَلشَّعْر (mišbak aš-šaʕr) Chinese: Mandarin: 髮卡／发卡 (zh) (fàqiǎ) Czech: vlásenka f, pinetka f Finnish: hiuspinni German: Haarklammer f Greek: φουρκέτα (el) f (fourkéta) Italian: molletta (it) f Polish: wsuwka (pl) f Russian: зако́лка (ru) f (zakólka), невиди́мка (ru) f (nevidímka) Swedish: hårnål (sv) c Turkish: tel toka