hairpin

hairpin
    n 1: a double pronged pin used to hold women's hair in place
    

Hairpin \Hair"pin`\ (-p[i^]n`), n.
   A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the
   hair in place, -- used by women.
   [1913 Webster]
    

75 Moby Thesaurus words for "hairpin":
      aberrancy, aberration, bend, bendy, bias, branching off, chevron,
      chevronwise, chevrony, circuitousness, corner, crankiness,
      crankled, crook, crooked, crookedness, curve, curvy, declination,
      departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness,
      digression, discursion, divagation, divarication, divergence,
      diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, errantry, excursion,
      excursus, exorbitation, flexuosity, flexuous, indirection,
      obliquity, pererration, rambling, sheer, shift, shifting,
      shifting course, shifting path, skew, slant, staggered, straying,
      sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, switchback, tack, turn, turning,
      twist, twisty, variation, veer, wandering, warp, yaw, zag, zig,
      zigzag, zigzaggery, zigzaggy, zigzagways