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ˈbobby pin U.S. [Etym. uncertain, but cf. bob v.5 and bobby sock.] A kind of sprung hair-pin or small clip, orig. for use with bobbed hair.
1936J. Lawrence If I have Four Apples iv. vii. 201 She wondered whether she had lost all the bobby-pins from her marcelled hair. 1939C. Morley Kitty Foyle viii. 81 How patient he was picking up bobby pins and the caps of coke bottles. 1952M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) iii. 32 Her dark, straight, glossy hair was worn short and loose, without so much as a bobby-pin. 1956R. Heinlein Double Star (1958) v. 87 Penny girl, got a bobby pin? |