curling iron

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   a cylindrical metal home appliance that heats a lock of hair that has been curled around it

   Broaderhome appliance

Questions about curling iron

What does curling iron mean?

curling iron means "a cylindrical metal home appliance that heats a lock of hair that has been curled around it".

Is curling iron a common word?

curling iron is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.