bobby pin

Questions about bobby pin

What is another word for bobby pin?

It depends which bobby pin you mean. In the sense “a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place”, the synonyms are hairgrip, grip. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of bobby pin?

WordNet records no antonym for bobby pin. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for bobby pin come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of bobby pin

• Full entry for bobby pinAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for bobby pinWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.