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hairpin (n.)
also
hair-pin
, 1788 (two words), from
hair
+
pin
(n.). A
hairpin
turn, etc., is from 1906.
Hairpin
(or
clothespin
) was American English slang for "person" c. 1880-1910, especially in the expression "That's the kind of hairpin I am."
