hairspray

/ ˈhɛəˌspreɪ /

noun

1. Also called: hair lacquer. a fixative solution sprayed onto the hair to keep a hairstyle in shape

Example Sentences

For years, Times environmental reporter and Pulitzer finalist Rosanna Xia has been covering the legacy of forever chemical DDT, a pesticide once applied to humans as innocuously as hairspray and yardhose water.

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Joan Cusack is marvelous despite the rainbow eyeshadow and fire hose of hairspray that turn her character into a cartoon.

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I’ll walk from my bedroom to the kitchen, straight through a cloud of hairspray, Febreze and Barclay cigarettes.

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She said she misses being able to spray her deodorant or hairspray because of the damage to her hands.

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One of those games involved a can of hairspray from a joke shop, when the then-20-year-old dyed his hair green for Norwich's game with fierce rivals Ipswich in 1996.

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