hairpinned

English

Etymology

hairpin +‎ -ed

Adjective

hairpinned (comparative more hairpinned, superlative most hairpinned)

1. Wearing hairpins.
   • 1914, Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Pastor's Wife, page 235:

     Well, if the Frau Pastor preferred behaving like a log instead of a proud mother — Frau Dosch shrugged her shoulder, put on a coloured dimity jacket over her petticoat, kicked off her slippers, and went, stockinged and hairpinned, to bed and to instant sleep.

   • 2006, Karen Ann McNeill, Building the California Women's Movement, page 128:

     Here was a young woman dressed in drab and severely hairpinned.

2. Containing hairpin turns.
   • 2000, Todd Balf, The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la, page 14:

     That said, what they show is still numbing: “Look at that crease,” says Wick, pointing out a cumulus-shaped gash of white in the steepest, most hairpinned part of the river course.

   • 2013, Edward W. Said, Out Of Place: A Memoir:

     In the early days, there was often a decrease in the number of cars as we climbed the dramatically hairpinned road to Bikfaya, the large town just below Dhour that I knew for its famous peaches and a fantastic red-and-tinsel-colored toy shop, "Kaiser Amer."

   • 2019, Stuart Haines, Walking in Abruzzo, page 245:

     Cross the bridge over the lake and climb a hairpinned road to the village.

3. (genetics) Consisting of or containing a hairpin ribozyme
   • 1997, Maurizio Zanetti, Donald J. Capra, Antibodies, page 87:

     The resulting DNA ends consist of blunt phosphorylated recombination signal end, and coding ends with hairpinned termini.

4. (genetics) Produced by a hairpin transfer.
   • 2005, Jonathan Kerr, Susan Cotmore, Marshall E. Bloom, Parvoviruses, page 194:

     The hairpinned substrate was incubated with extracts from cells infected by both AAV and adenovirus.