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Definition of "hatpin" [hatpin]

  • A long straight pin usually with an ornamental head, used to secure a hat to the wearer's hair. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "hatpin" in a sentence
  • "Wonder Woman is a DC Comics character -- Warner Bros.-parent Time Warner owns DC Comics -- who is a corporate suit by day, but who but can change into her alter ego at the drop of a hatpin."
  • "Starting with Episode 5, we have the very beautiful hatpin on the back of the stewardess cap that was fashioned after stewardess Sheila Riley's personal Pan Am pin she wore on the flight to Berlin."
  • "In a coup, Ms. Cappello tracks down one of Jackson's patients, who as an 8-year-old girl in 1931 swallowed a hatpin."