hair-drier

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hair-drier (plural hair-driers)

  1. Alternative form of hairdryer.
    • 19881989, Stephen King, “The Library Policeman”, in Four Past Midnight, New York, N.Y.: Viking, published 1990, →ISBN, page 492:
      Along the left wall were four microfilm readers that looked like futuristic hair-driers.
    • 1992, John Davis, Exchange (Concepts in Social Thought), Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 52:
      It is very striking that the big manufacturers of industrial and of ‘white’ goods (fridges, washing machines, driers) set up lines of production for smaller items such as hair-driers, toasters, coffee- and tea-makers.
    • 2000, Terry Jennings, Science Success, volume 4, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 26:
      Electric kettles, hair-driers, toasters and irons all have heating elements which work in a similar way to those in an electric fire.