rubberband
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See also: rubber-band and rubber band
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]rubberband (plural rubberbands)
- Alternative form of rubber band
- 1998, Natural Hair Care and Braiding, →ISBN, page 114:
- Once the hair is sewn onto the foundation, use the proper styling aids to blend all natural hair that is not in rubberbands into the commercial hair, if necessary.
- 1999, Jennifer Overend Prior, Janet A. Hale, Bats, →ISBN, page 39:
- Provide each child, or pair of children, with a shoebox (shoebox lid is not needed) and different sizes and thicknesses of rubberbands. The children are to stretch several different sizes of rubberbands around the entire shoebox's girth.
- 2008, Susan E. Harris, Grooming To Win, →ISBN, page 203:
- Braiding with rubberbands is quicker than sewing in yarn or thread but it is not acceptable for high-level competition, and it will break off hairs and damage the mane.
Verb
[edit]rubberband (third-person singular simple present rubberbands, present participle rubberbanding, simple past and past participle rubberbanded)
- (uncommon) Alternative form of rubber-band
- 2001, Braiding: Easy Styles for Everyone, →ISBN, page 71:
- Rubberband them together.
- 2013, Phil Rickman, The Fabric of Sin, →ISBN:
- Long red-gray hair in a rubberbanded ponytail, […]
- 2014, Steve Hullfish, Avid Uncut, →ISBN:
- Editors are very set in their ways of whether they prefer doing level changes within a clip by rubberbanding or by breaking the clip into pieces and adjusting the levels of each piece.