blow-dry
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.36 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To dry with a hair dryer.
noun
An instance of blow-drying.
noun
A blow-dried hairdo.
Example Sentences
- "Use a couple of large Velcro rollers at the crown while you blow-dry to add volume, said Patrick Melville, an owner of the Warren-Tricomi salon in New York."
- "She went to the hairdresser's for a haircut, shampooing and a blow-dry."
- "After we had our hair cut, we had to wait a few minutes for blow-drys."
- "A lot of hairdressers don’t consider what the client looks like. There’s no point doing something big and fabulous like a huge blow-dry if she hasn’t even got a hairdryer at home; she can never recreate it."
- "She rests her blow-dry against his belly as Ollie stands there helplessly."
- "Within minutes they had annexed a couple suits, and were soon halfway down a bottle of champagne, laughing and tossing their blow-dries and generally acting like they were absolutely thrilled to be in precisely that stuffy bar with its lame DJ and lamer floating candles in ice troughs, with precisely those fascinatingly witty men, while their luckier colleagues were doing bad Russian coke on the Riviera."