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• hot comb
  hot comb

  noun

  a comb or comblike appliance heated electrically and used to arrange or style the hair.
• hot-comb
  hot-comb

  verb (used with object)

  to arrange or style (the hair) with a hot comb.

hot comb

¹ American  

noun

1. a comb or comblike appliance heated electrically and used to arrange or style the hair.

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hot-comb ² American  

[hot-kohm] / ˈhɒtˌkoʊm /

verb (used with object)

1. to arrange or style (the hair) with a hot comb.

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Etymology

Origin of hot comb

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

“Good hair” in our vernacular then meant it didn’t require a hot comb.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2022

She was running a hot comb through the hair of Chris Vera, who helped explain why.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2017

In one stall a West Texas matron in toreador pants, see-through blouse and perhaps the last bouffant hairdo in Western civilization teased the tip of her Hereford's tail with a hot comb.

From Time Magazine Archive

It hadn’t occurred to me that Cecile didn’t own a hot comb or curling iron, even though that fact was as big and thick as her unpressed braids.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia

I'd expected she’d say no outright because I’d smoke up her precious workplace with hair burning from the hot comb.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia