Definitions
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- noun Alternative spelling of
hair dryer ; alternative spelling ofhairdryer .
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Examples
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It's what we call a 'hair-dryer song,' a song girls sing into their hair dryers as they're getting ready to go out.
Simon Cowell Thinks Rebecca Black's "Friday" Is "Brilliant" 2011
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They are known as hair-dryer treatments, in which he gets in the face of an unfortunate and pins his hair back, as if the recipient had just been to the salon.
NYT > Home Page By JACK BELL 2011
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At 40 miles all-electric, that's 260 watt-hours per mile, or about the power necessary to run a hand-held hair-dryer for 15 minutes.
Chevrolet Volt: A Win for the Home Team Dan Neil 2010
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Todd Moore , founder and CEO of TMSoft, the maker of an app called White Noise, says he created a hair-dryer sound at one woman's request.
Listening to Shhhh in the City Aatekah Mir 2011
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Adjacent to a table with $3,000 snakeskin dog collars designed by Zhoucheng Shi, the CEO of Weizhi Inc. with blond dreadlocks and a pitbull named Lady, was the FroliCat Bolt, an interactive laser toy that looks like the front half of a hair-dryer.
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The hair-dryer blasts that held the ship aloft gradually diminished from high to medium.
Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010
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The hair-dryer blasts that held the ship aloft gradually diminished from high to medium.
Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010
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An autopsy is being performed today; though the young woman was found dead in her Staten Island bathroom with a hair-dryer cord around her neck, it's not clear to the reporters that her death was caused by strangulation.
Wood War! Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs? 2009
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The hair-dryer purr of a moped engine raced and Marco staggered out of the car and tried to give chase, but it was no use.
The Arab Bank 2009
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An autopsy is being performed today; though the young woman was found dead in her Staten Island bathroom with a hair-dryer cord around her neck, it's not clear to the reporters that her death was caused by strangulation.
Wood War! Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs? 2009
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