hairpin
hairpin
Definition
hair·pin (-pin′)
noun
a small, usually -shaped, piece of wire, shell, etc., for keeping the hair or a headdress in place
adjective
formed like a hairpin a hairpin turn
hairpin
Synonyms
hairpin
Usage Examples
Preposition: on
- lap: Braking hard into the hairpin on the first lap Webster looked simply invincible.
Converse of object
- negotiate: As the front runners negotiated a tight hairpin on the dirt section, Steele crashed out leaving Iddon to take the lead.
- exit: Karl had already nicked fifth back from Stanley, who slid through the mud exiting the hairpin for the final time.
- round: Continue upwards and round the hairpin bend near the top.
- make: The path bears left at the end of a patch of woodland then makes a hairpin bend to cross a stream.
- take: Gez said he could have caught him if he taken the hairpin a bit better!
- enter: MotorSport Vision champion Dempsey was struggling with the set-up of his car and spun entering the hairpin.
Adjective modifier
- tight: The circuit favors the lighter drivers due to two very tight hairpins, the second of which precedes the back straight.
- sharp: Here, the road swings round to the left on a sharp hairpin, with a steep ravine on your left hand side.
- final: Near the bottom of the hill, at the final hairpin, you'll see a sign for the Flower Tunnel teashop.
- second: Exiting the second hairpin will naturally bring you out onto the right hand side, which is where you need to be.
- last: The entrance is found by taking a path off the last left hand hairpin bend before a clearing.
- first: He was clearly rattled, for having seen the board calling him in he promptly spun at the first hairpin!
Modifies a noun
- bend: The road which is well surfaced climbs steadily through more hairpin bends.
- loop: On yet another hairpin loop, Besançon loomed like a mountain, its marina visible through a lock off the craggy river gorge.
- turn: A fast and rocky fire road drop leading into a large hairpin turn before spitting you across the very welcome finish line.
- structure: These features are formed as a result of particle acceleration in the hairpin field structure of the distant tail.
- right: It was all a question of getting the line around the hairpin right.
- tuna: Lively affair the final table damiba the year-old part of a. The us hairpin tunas with.
Noun used with modifier
- Druid: On lap nine Green dived through into the Druids hairpin to claim third.
Browse dictionary entries near hairpin
- hairpiece
- hairnet
- hairline
- hairless
- hairiness
- -haired
- hairdresser
- hairdo
- haircut
- haircloth
- hairsbreadth
- hairsplitting
- hairspring
- hairstreak
- hairstyle
- hairworm
- hairy
- hairy vetch
- Haiti
- Haitian
