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rubberband en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of rubber band.
    • Braiding with rubberbands is quicker than sewing in yarn or thread but it is not acceptable for high-level competition, and it will break off hairs and damage the mane. 2008, Susan E. Harris, Grooming To Win, →ISBN, page 203:
    • Provide each child, or pair of children, with a shoebox (shoebox lid is not needed) and different sizes and thicknesses of rubberbands. The children are to stretch several different sizes of rubberbands around the entire shoebox's girth. 1999, Jennifer Overend Prior, Janet A. Hale, Bats, →ISBN, page 39:
    • Once the hair is sewn onto the foundation, use the proper styling aids to blend all natural hair that is not in rubberbands into the commercial hair, if necessary. 1998, Natural Hair Care and Braiding, →ISBN, page 114:

Forms

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rubberbands Number=Plur lexicographic

rubberband en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncommon) Alternative form of rubber-band.
    • Long red-gray hair in a rubberbanded ponytail, […] 2013, Phil Rickman, The Fabric of Sin, →ISBN:
    • Editors are very set in their ways of whether they prefer doing level changes within a clip by rubberbanding or by breaking the clip into pieces and adjusting the levels of each piece. 2014, Steve Hullfish, Avid Uncut, →ISBN:
    • Rubberband them together. 2001, Braiding: Easy Styles for Everyone, →ISBN, page 71:

Forms

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rubberbanded Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
rubberbanded Tense=Past lexicographic
rubberbands Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
rubberbanding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic