Usage of "bobby pin" | TermGallery

Spanish

Flat, springlike metal hairpin.

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Catalan

A flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place.

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Examples for "grip"

Examples for "grip"

But COVID-19's greatest grip is on the smaller nations of Eastern Europe. 
 News.com.au 

The new team will need time to consolidate its grip on power. 
 Reuters 

He called on central government to take a grip of the situation. 
 The Guardian 

Ace High said nothing; simply tightened his grip on Heck's thrashing arm. 
 The stand 

Hand grip strength Dynamometer was used to measure the hand grip strength. 
 Pubmed 

Hairgrips and rubber bands pinged off into the road. 
 The Pinhoe Egg 

There are so few glimpses of hairgrips or bands that it looks as though the objects have been trepanned into the model's heads. 
 The Guardian 

Usage of bobby pin in English

We have seen an atlantic liner tied in with a bobby pin. 
 The new yorker 

I'm trading a bobby pin up until I get a house. 
 News.com.au 

He found a pen and a bobby pin and her checkbook. 
 The stand 

Her nursing cap came askew, dangling by a bobby pin. 
 Her mother's hope 

Isobel felt a bobby pin scrape her scalp, then another. 
 Nevermore 

They're just superior to every bobby pin I've ever tried. 
 NY Magazine 

There, on the pillowcase, lay a tiny silver bobby pin. 
 Ali’s Pretty Little Lies 

Emma spit out a bobby pin and looked up. 
 Seven Minutes in Heaven 

He clipped it to her blouse pocket with the bobby pin and began to cry. 
 The stand 

Still he checked the station house floor for a lost bobby pin or piece of wire. 
 The next to die 

The dropped bobby pin felt like an omen. 
 Ali’s Pretty Little Lies 

Then there will be a bobby pin shortage, plus a tumblr and corny jokes about the hairstyle. 
 Ebony 

Break In When no one's looking, pop open the control-panel hatch with a paper clip or bobby pin. 
 Wired 

Her sister was going to take her life back-startingwith her room-onedropped bobby pin at a time. 
 Ali’s Pretty Little Lies 

A bobby pin from Lucy's hair. 
 Doctor Sleep 

With the cuffs in one hand, she slides what looks like a warped bobby pin out of her pocket. 
 In Time 

Translations for bobby pin

Spanish

Catalan

Meanings of bobby pin in English