Usually means: Sharp turn in a road.
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  1. hairpin bend: Collins English Dictionary
  2. hairpin bend: Vocabulary.com
  3. hairpin bend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. hairpin bend: Wiktionary
  5. hairpin bend: Dictionary.com
  6. Hairpin bend: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. hairpin bend: Rhymezone
  8. hairpin bend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. hairpin bend: FreeDictionary.org
  10. hairpin bend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. hairpin bend: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. hairpin bend: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hairpin bend)

▸ noun:  An acute curve, often one of a series, in a road, especially on a steep incline.

Similar:
hairpin curve, hairpin turn, heck, bought, kink, ring bend, crank, flexure, L-bend, curl, more...

Opposite:
straightaway, straight road, straight path

Types:
S-bend, J-bend, U-bend, hairpin loop, hairpin turn, hairpin curve, more...

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Similar:
hairpin curve, hairpin turn, heck, bought, kink, ring bend, crank, flexure, L-bend, curl, more...

Opposite:
straightaway, straight road, straight path

Types:
S-bend, J-bend, U-bend, hairpin loop, hairpin turn, hairpin curve, more...



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