Bobby-pin
a flat, springlike metal hairpin having the prongs held close together by tension.
noun
(US & Canadian, Austral & NZ) a metal hairpin bent in order to hold the hair in place Brit terms hairgrip, kirby grip
n.
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socks that reach above the ankle and are sometimes folded down to the ankle. indicating or associated with the wearing of bobbysocks; adolescent: strictly a bobbysocks crowd; the bobbysocks generation. plural noun ankle-length socks worn by teenage girls, esp in the US in the 1940s
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