hairpin

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hair=pin

CIDE DICTIONARY

hairpin, n. 

 A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hairpin, n. a U-shaped pin for fastening the hair.

Idiom

hairpin bend a sharp U-shaped bend in a road.

THESAURUS

hairpin

aberrancy, aberration, bend, bendy, bias, branching off, chevron, chevronwise, chevrony, circuitousness, corner, crankiness, crankled, crook, crooked, crookedness, curve, curvy, declination, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, discursion, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, flexuosity, flexuous, indirection, obliquity, pererration, rambling, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, slant, staggered, straying, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, switchback, tack, turn, turning, twist, twisty, variation, veer, wandering, warp, yaw, zag, zig, zigzag, zigzaggery, zigzaggy, zigzagways