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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

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“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

And although there was still the hateful hot comb to suffer through each Saturday evening, its consequences—smooth hair—no longer interested her.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

I pull out the hot comb, pomade, and all my favorite hair bows.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

Not one article about how to hot-comb without wearing that smoky hot-comb smell to school.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia