hairpin
/ˈhɛɚ.pɪn/ noun C2- A pin or fastener for the hair.
- A kind of ribozyme; hairpin ribozyme.
- A very tight bend in a road; a hairpin bend.
- An elongated horizontal v-shaped sign placed underneath a staff to indicate a crescendo or decrescendo.
Plural hairpins
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Marilla was a tall, thin woman, with angles and without curves; her dark hair showed some gray streaks and was always twisted up in a hard little knot behind with two wire hairpins stuck aggressively through it.
You examined the room, I presume, to see if the intruder had left any traces—any cigar-end or dropped glove or hairpin or other trifle?”
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