blow-dry

1. 1.

   dry hair with a hair dryer

   Broaderdry

Questions about blow-dry

What does blow-dry mean?

blow-dry means "dry hair with a hair dryer".

How many syllables are in blow-dry?

blow-dry has 2 syllables and divides as blow--dry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is blow-dry a common word?

blow-dry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.