blow-dry

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blow-dry (third-person singular simple present blow-dries, present participle blow-drying, simple past and past participle blow-dried)

1. To dry with a hair dryer.

blow-dry (plural blow-dries or blow-drys)

1. An instance of blow-drying.

   She went to the hairdresser's for a haircut, shampooing and a blow-dry.

   • 2014, Sheila Agnew, chapter 14, in Evie Brooks in Central Park Showdown, Dublin: The O’Brien Press, →ISBN, page 93:

     After we had our hair cut, we had to wait a few minutes for blow-drys.

2. A blow-dried hairdo.
   • 2011 June, Olivia Wakefield, quoting Ian Carmichael, “Cut Above the Rest”, in Lorraine Crighton-Smith, editor, SW, number 264, London: Archant Life, →OCLC, “London Lifestyle Awards 2011” supplement:

     A lot of hairdressers don’t consider what the client looks like. There’s no point doing something big and fabulous like a huge blow-dry if she hasn’t even got a hairdryer at home; she can never recreate it.

   • 2012, Polly Williams, The Angel at No. 33, London: Headline Review, →ISBN, page 151:

     She rests her blow-dry against his belly as Ollie stands there helplessly.

   • 2016, L. S. Hilton [pseudonym; Lisa Hilton], chapter 19, in Maestra, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 197:

     Within minutes they had annexed a couple suits, and were soon halfway down a bottle of champagne, laughing and tossing their blow-dries and generally acting like they were absolutely thrilled to be in precisely that stuffy bar with its lame DJ and lamer floating candles in ice troughs, with precisely those fascinatingly witty men, while their luckier colleagues were doing bad Russian coke on the Riviera.