hot comb

¹

noun

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

hot-comb

²

[hot-kohm]

verb (used with object)

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of hot comb¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Her godmother's strong gaze felt like a hot comb whisking too close to her ear.

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Although Black women undergo differing hair journeys, said Twigg, an executive producer of the new six-episode docu-series “The Hair Tales,” it is a shared experience, like the hiss of a hot comb or the banter in a beauty salon, that unites them.

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A wide-brimmed hat covered her black hair, which she had pressed straight with a hot comb off the stove that morning.

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We waited for our mothers to wield the hot comb like a weapon, ready to press our thicket of coils into submission to make us more culturally palatable.

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

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