bobbypin
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Noun edit
bobbypin (plural bobbypins)
- Alternative form of bobby pin
- 1941, Whit Burnett, Martha Foley, Story - Volumes 19-21, page 90:
- "You look like a tramp," Quinn said, and starting forward suddenly, so that she cried out, he gave a flip at her hair and the bobbypin fell out.
- 2012, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women:
- Ida turned swiftly with mouth full of golden bobbypins.
- 2015, Niven Busch, California Street, page 386:
- She held it up to the light — a standard wire bobbypin of a dark shade, the sort that is manufactured for brunettes.