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hairlike |
hairline |
hairline fracture |
hairnet |
hairpiece |
hairpin
| hairpin bend
| hairsbreadth
| hairsplitter
| hairsplitting
| hairspring
hairpin
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hairpin has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
hairpin, n.
A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hairpin, n. a U-shaped pin for fastening the hair.
Idiom
hairpin bend a sharp U-shaped bend in a road.
THESAURUS
hairpin
aberrancy, aberration, bend, bendy, bias, branching off, chevron, chevronwise, chevrony, circuitousness, corner, crankiness, crankled, crook, crooked, crookedness, curve, curvy, declination, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, discursion, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, flexuosity, flexuous, indirection, obliquity, pererration, rambling, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, slant, staggered, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, switchback, tack, turn, turning, twist, twisty, variation, veer, wandering, warp, yaw, zag, zig, zigzag, zigzaggery, zigzaggy, zigzagways
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