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- noun Plural form of
hairpin .
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Examples
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The updated code requires new homes to have tamper-resistant receptacles, designed to prevent children from inserting objects such as hairpins, keys and nails that could cause them to receive a shock.
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If by any chance you're handy with the hot rollers or brush and can handle hairpins then you're among the lucky ones who can persuade your tresses into dramatically different looks with a few twists of the wrist.
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It was dangerous all right, but no more so than hundreds of other hairpins I've negotiated in Mexico.
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Our journey here had been long: it's not far from the coast, but the road had more hairpins than a Sicilian wedding.
Sleeping with the Finzi-Continis: Sicily's Madonie mountains 2011
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Here she was, her hair in a style that made you think of all those films where the secretary suddenly takes out her hairpins and whips off her glasses and her boss whispers that he never realized she was so beautiful.
Christina Patterson: We Loved You, Sarah, Because You Made Us Feel Smart Christina Patterson 2011
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Jane clutched at her head, knocking out hairpins and destroying the last vestige of her attempt at a hairstyle.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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Jane clutched at her head, knocking out hairpins and destroying the last vestige of her attempt at a hairstyle.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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In the struggle under water, before he permitted her to wrench clear, her rubber cap was torn off, and her hairpins pulled out, so that she came up gasping for air and half-blinded by her wet-clinging hair.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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And in the cracks there paper clips, hairpins, and toothpicks.
The Little Things Tim Young 2011
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Here she was, her hair in a style that made you think of all those films where the secretary suddenly takes out her hairpins and whips off her glasses and her boss whispers that he never realized she was so beautiful.
Christina Patterson: We Loved You, Sarah, Because You Made Us Feel Smart Christina Patterson 2011
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