bobby pin en · NOUN
Etymology
From bob haircut, which the bobby pin was designed to keep under control.
Meanings
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(US) A type of double-pronged hairpin.
[H]e still didn't like looking down the drain. The brass cross-hatch inside that was supposed to catch things like clots of hair or dropped bobby-pins had disappeared years ago, and so there was only a dark hole rimmed by a circle of tarnished steel.
1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:Her pinned-up hairdo was drooping and she shed two bobby pins on the floor.
2014, Janet Cantrell, chapter 7, in Fat Cat at Large, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 58:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bobbypin | alternative | lexicographic | |
| bobby pins | Number=Plur | lexicographic |