hatpin
- n a long sturdy pin used by women to secure a hat to their hair
- All crumpled organdy and helplessness yet clearly indestructible, she is drugged, chloroformed, kidnaped, nearly impaled on a hatpin, and at one point must be pulled out of the .
- Levine had crammed it with hatpin-sharp caricatures, all bathed in a rich and suitably waxen light.
- Like Bruce, Shawn clearly relishes casual irreverence, pungent social commentary and the hatpin thrust that punctures hypocrisy and pomposity.