Usually means: Sharp bend in road, pin.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word hairpin:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. hairpin: Merriam-Webster
  2. hairpin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hairpin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hairpin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hairpin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hairpin, hairpin: Wordnik
  7. hairpin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hairpin: Wiktionary
  9. hairpin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hairpin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hairpin: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hairpin: Dictionary.com
  13. Hairpin (disambiguation), Hairpin (fashion), Hairpin, The Hairpin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Hairpin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. hairpin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. hairpin: Rhymezone
  17. Hairpin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. hairpin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. hairpin: FreeDictionary.org
  20. hairpin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. hairpin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. hairpin: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. hairpin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hairpin: CCI Computer
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Technopedia (No longer online)

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. hairpin: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  4. hairpin: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hairpin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Hairpin: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A pin or fastener for the hair.
noun:  (biology) A kind of ribozyme; hairpin ribozyme.
noun:  (chiefly attributive) A very tight bend in a road; a hairpin bend.
noun:  (music) An elongated horizontal v-shaped sign placed underneath a staff to indicate a crescendo or decrescendo.

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