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A pin or fastener for the hair.
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A kind of ribozyme; hairpin ribozyme.
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A very tight bend in a road.
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An elongated v-shaped sign placed underneath a staff to indicate a crescendo
Examples of hairpin in a Sentence
Secure the ends under the bun with a hairpin.
The path bears left at the end of a patch of woodland then makes a hairpin bend to cross a stream.
The car lurches around hairpin bends, its wheels inches from the edge.
I got onto the marbles in the hairpin, went a bit wide because the rear locked up and got the tires dirty.
Back down at stream level you reach a hairpin bend with an inlet entering on the right from an impenetrable fissure.
As the front runners negotiated a tight hairpin on the dirt section, Steele crashed out leaving Iddon to take the lead.
Karl had already nicked fifth back from Stanley, who slid through the mud exiting the hairpin for the final time.
Continue upwards and round the hairpin bend near the top.
Gez said he could have caught him if he taken the hairpin a bit better!
MotorSport Vision champion Dempsey was struggling with the set-up of his car and spun entering the hairpin.
Here, the road swings round to the left on a sharp hairpin, with a steep ravine on your left hand side.
Near the bottom of the hill, at the final hairpin, you'll see a sign for the Flower Tunnel teashop.
Exiting the second hairpin will naturally bring you out onto the right hand side, which is where you need to be.
The entrance is found by taking a path off the last left hand hairpin bend before a clearing.
He was clearly rattled, for having seen the board calling him in he promptly spun at the first hairpin!
On lap nine Green dived through into the druids hairpin to claim third.
Braking hard into the hairpin on the first lap Webster looked simply invincible.
David's namesake John spun at the hairpin before retiring on the eighth lap.
The forest is easily penetrated from the downhill hairpin on the forest track, through a ride between trees to the forest fence.
It leads from Loch Kishorn through ascending hairpin bends and skirts steep precipices on its way.
The barge, being rear wheel drive, was quite slippy on some of the hairpin turns.
Push the wire up through each flower stem, bending the excess wire into a hairpin shape so that the ends are rounded.
As a bobsled coaster, Disaster Transport is not designed with steep drops or hairpin turns that a more rigidly designed coaster is capable of.
The road to Hana is legendary for its 617 hairpin turns.
In Hana, you'll have the option of turning around and revisiting all those hairpin turns once again or taking the "back road," formally known as "Hana Belt Road."
These features are formed as a result of particle acceleration in the hairpin field structure of the distant tail.
His head and hands were sent to Rome and nailed to the rostra, after Fulvia, wife of Antony and widow of Clodius, had thrust a hairpin through the tongue.