hair-drier

hair-drier (plural hair-driers)

1. Alternative form of hairdryer.
   • 1988–1989, Stephen King, “The Library Policeman”, in Four Past Midnight, New York, N.Y.: Viking, published 1990, →ISBN, page 492:

     Along the left wall were four microfilm readers that looked like futuristic hair-driers.

   • 1992, John Davis, Exchange (Concepts in Social Thought), Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 52:

     It is very striking that the big manufacturers of industrial and of ‘white’ goods (fridges, washing machines, driers) set up lines of production for smaller items such as hair-driers, toasters, coffee- and tea-makers.

   • 2000, Terry Jennings, Science Success, volume 4, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 26:

     Electric kettles, hair-driers, toasters and irons all have heating elements which work in a similar way to those in an electric fire.