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hair grip (plural hair grips)

  1. Alternative form of hairgrip
    • 2011, Sue Butler, Too Much Death, page 128:
      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, Ceri Radford, A Surrey State Of Affairs:
      '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.
    • 2013, Maggie Hope, Molly's War, page 152:
      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.