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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HA'IRPIN, n. A pin used in dressing the hair.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a double pronged pin used to hold women's hair in place

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 1771 1. a pin to hold the hair in place; specifically a long U-shaped pin 2. something shaped like a hairpin; specifically a sharp U-shaped turn in a road II. adjective Date: 1887 having the shape of a hairpin <a hairpin turn>; also having hairpin turns <a steep hairpin road>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a U-shaped pin for fastening the hair. Phrases and idioms: hairpin bend a sharp U-shaped bend in a road.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hairpin Hair"pin`, n. A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hairpins) 1. A hairpin is a small piece of metal or plastic bent back on itself which someone uses to hold their hair in position. = hairgrip N-COUNT 2. A hairpin is the same as a hairpin bend. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

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