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

“You must have Cherokee blood,” she said of the straightness, when all I had was Big Ma’s hot comb and Mrs.’s curling expertise.

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

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