hatpin Meaning of "hatpin"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a long sturdy pin used by women to secure a hat to their hair

Usage(s):

  1. Levine had crammed it with hatpin-sharp caricatures, all bathed in a rich and suitably waxen light.
  2. Like Bruce, Shawn clearly relishes casual irreverence, pungent social commentary and the hatpin thrust that punctures hypocrisy and pomposity.
  3. But on she goes, stabbing her victims with repeated thrusts of her vindictive hatpin.
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