"hair spray" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hair sprays [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} hair spray (countable and uncountable, plural hair sprays)
  1. A usually scented hairstyling product in aerosol form that stiffens the hair, so it stays in a certain hairstyle. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Fashion, Hair Translations (hairstyling product that stiffens the hair): 定型水 (dìngxíngshuǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), 噴發膠 (Chinese Mandarin), 喷发胶 (pēnfājiāo) (Chinese Mandarin), haarspray [masculine] (Dutch), haarlak [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), hiuslakka (Finnish), laque (english: pour les cheveux) [feminine] (French), Haarspray [neuter] (German), hajlakk (Hungarian), ヘアスプレー (heasupurē) (Japanese), hårspray [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), hårspray [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), lakier do włosów (Polish), laca [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), laquê [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), fixativ [neuter] (Romanian), лак для воло́с (lak dlja volós) [masculine] (Russian), лак (lak) [masculine] (Russian), laca [feminine] (Spanish), hårspray [common-gender] (Swedish), hårsprej [common-gender] (Swedish), saç spreyi (Turkish), лак (lak) [masculine] (Ukrainian), лак для воло́сся (lak dlja volóssja) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-hair_spray-en-noun-zg48y0EK Disambiguation of Fashion: 55 45 Disambiguation of Hair: 48 52 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 28 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 70 30 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 72 28

Verb

Forms: hair sprays [present, singular, third-person], hair spraying [participle, present], hair sprayed [participle, past], hair sprayed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} hair spray (third-person singular simple present hair sprays, present participle hair spraying, simple past and past participle hair sprayed)
  1. (transitive) To spray with this product. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Fashion, Hair Synonyms: hairspray Related terms: hair gel, hair wax
    Sense id: en-hair_spray-en-verb-ARvfJO3~ Disambiguation of Fashion: 55 45 Disambiguation of Hair: 48 52

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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