"bobby pin" meaning in English

See bobby pin in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: bobby pins [plural]
Etymology: From bob haircut, which the bobby pin was designed to keep under control. Etymology templates: {{m|en|bob haircut}} bob haircut Head templates: {{en-noun}} bobby pin (plural bobby pins)
  1. (US) A type of double-pronged hairpin. Tags: US Categories (topical): Fasteners, Hair Synonyms: hairgrip, kirby grip, bobbypin

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for bobby pin meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bob haircut"
      },
      "expansion": "bob haircut",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From bob haircut, which the bobby pin was designed to keep under control.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bobby pins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bobby pin (plural bobby pins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fasteners",
          "orig": "en:Fasteners",
          "parents": [
            "Tools",
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Hair",
          "orig": "en:Hair",
          "parents": [
            "Body parts",
            "Body",
            "Anatomy",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger",
          "text": "[H]e still didn't like looking down the drain. The brass cross-hatch inside that was supposed to catch things like clots of hair or dropped bobby-pins had disappeared years ago, and so there was only a dark hole rimmed by a circle of tarnished steel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of double-pronged hairpin."
      ],
      "id": "en-bobby_pin-en-noun-RerFmBRg",
      "links": [
        [
          "hairpin",
          "hairpin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A type of double-pronged hairpin."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hairgrip"
        },
        {
          "word": "kirby grip"
        },
        {
          "word": "bobbypin"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bobby pin"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bob haircut"
      },
      "expansion": "bob haircut",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From bob haircut, which the bobby pin was designed to keep under control.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bobby pins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bobby pin (plural bobby pins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Fasteners",
        "en:Hair"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger",
          "text": "[H]e still didn't like looking down the drain. The brass cross-hatch inside that was supposed to catch things like clots of hair or dropped bobby-pins had disappeared years ago, and so there was only a dark hole rimmed by a circle of tarnished steel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of double-pronged hairpin."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hairpin",
          "hairpin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) A type of double-pronged hairpin."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hairgrip"
    },
    {
      "word": "kirby grip"
    },
    {
      "word": "bobbypin"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bobby pin"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.