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bobby pin

NOUN
hairpin
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Once those are done, she will find someone to trade the house for a bobby pin and try her luck a second time.

From Seattle Times Dec. 15, 2021

In this game, I would bobby pin one of my grandmother’s yellow towels over my own hair.

From New York Times Dec. 4, 2020

But there are threats that we haven’t evolved to perceive, and need to learn about, which is why your kid won’t eat broccoli but will happily toddle toward an electrical outlet, bobby pin in hand.

From Washington Post Sep. 3, 2020

If surgeons move the electrode by as little as the width of a bobby pin, they hold Frankensteinian power to play with a person’s emotions.

From Science Magazine Sep. 14, 2018

“Don’t tell me what to do,” said Isabelle, but after thinking about it she pulled another bobby pin from her pocket.

From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick




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