hair-grip
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of hairgrip.
Example Sentences
- "By the time you reached 'third' year the hole reappeared, now one through which a hair-grip could slide, enabling the beret to be balanced on the back of your head—a trendy statement!"
- "By presenting herself as frightened by the dangerous creature animated by the children, the caregiver legitimates the symbolic transformations proposed by Mattia and riccardo (the hair-grip as a crocodile or a shark) and remarks the nonliteral use of objects."
- "The hair-grip goes some way towards satisfying his deep desire to be one of them. The little boy who saw the white cockerel, and the little boy wearing Lily's hair-grip, both remained part of William Golding."