Definitions for hairpin

hairpin hair·pin

Spelling: [hair-pin]
IPA: /ˈhɛərˌpɪn/

Hairpin is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in hairpin (ahiinpr).

Definitions for hairpin

noun

  1. a slender U -shaped piece of wire, shell, etc., used by women to fasten up the hair or hold a headdress.

adjective

  1. (of a road, curve in a road, etc.) sharply curved back, as in a U shape:

Origin of hairpin

First recorded in 1770-80; hair + pin

Examples for hairpin

She looked at herself in profile and readjusted a hairpin above her ear.

She tried to pierce my eyes with that hairpin that you saw just now.

And you picked the lock with a hairpin, and came here all alone to flirt with my Jack!

I believe I can pick it off little by little with a hairpin or a pair of scissors or something.

They had expected to see him fall, smitten with the hairpin!

Carrey sings: "You're a big, big man with a little bitty gland, so you need something bigger with a hairpin trigger."

"You're losing a hairpin on the left side of your head," was all I said.

He drove on up the trail as it climbed the canyon wall in hairpin slants.

“I never unplug,” says Edith Zimmerman, editor of The hairpin.

A hairpin will not remove it; therefore let us call it immovable.

Word Value for hairpin
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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