Definitions for hairpins

hairpins hair·pin

Spelling: [hair-pin]
IPA: /ˈhɛərˌpɪn/

Hairpins is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 242 anagrams from letters in hairpins (ahiinprs).

Definitions for hairpins

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 hairpins

First recorded in 1770-80; hair + pin

Examples for hairpins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for hairpins
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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