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hair grip en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of hairgrip.
   alt of hairgrip
   • 'And how do you know all this?' she asked, smoothing back an immaculate curtain of iron-grey hair and securing it with a quick stab of her hair grip. 2011, Ceri Radford, A Surrey State Of Affairs:
   • She could not have weighed more than five stones, her straight, chin-length grey hair was parted on the side and held back with a hair grip that sometimes had a pink or blue bow made out of ribbon tied to it. 2011, Sue Butler, Too Much Death, page 128:
   • She couldn't wear a hair grip or slide to hold her hair back in case friction caused the powder to ignite so wisps escaped and yellowed too. 2013, Maggie Hope, Molly's War, page 152:

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